WINNER of the 2020 kingsley tufts prize
“Mind blowing”-Kim Gordon
Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book is at once relatable and out-of-this-world. In poems tracking climate change, bystanderism, state murder, sexual trauma, shopping, ghosting, love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, A Sand Book chronicles new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times. What does the destruction of our soil have to do with the weather in the human soul? From sand in the gizzards of birds to the iridescence on the surface of spilt oil, from sand storms on Mars to our internet-addicted present, from the desertifying mountains of Haiti to Sandy Hook to Hurricane Sandy to Sandra Bland, A Sand Book is both a travelogue and a book of mourning. In her long-anticipated follow-up to Mercury, Ariana Reines has written her most ambitious, visceral, and satisfying work to date.
Praise for A SAND BOOK
In ‘A Sand Book,’ Ariana Reines Finds Ecstasy in Chaos - Diana Arterian, the New york times
TO BE OF THIS WORLD & NO OTHER”: A REVIEW OF ARIANA REINES’S ‘A SAND BOOK’ -Michael J. Emmons, the adroit journal
WE all have to be poets and time travelers - with Emmalea Russo, avant-Galaxy
a sand book review - Paul Scott Stanfield, hong kong review of books
DROPPING THE BULLSHIT WITH POET ARIANA REINES - Ana Cecelia Alvarez, ssense
INTERVIEW WITH ARIANA REINES - Rebecca Tamás, the white review
Finding Oneself in Poetry - Jeffrey Grunthaner, hyperallergic
NOTES ON THE OCCULT ELEMENTS IN ARIANA REINES’ A SANDBOOK - Peter Valente, fanzine
PODCASTS
Ariana Reines' Quest for 21st Century Epic Verse -LARB podcast
A Sand Pod w/ Ariana Reines -Red Scare pocast
Ariana Reines: A Sand Book -Bookworm podcast (Michael Silverblatt)
VIDEOS
