{"product_id":"a-sand-book-poems-paperback","title":"A Sand Book: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriana Reines\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mind-blowing.\" ―Kim Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, \u003ci\u003eA Sand Book \u003c\/i\u003echronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's \"Conference of the Birds\" to Chaucer's \"Parliament of Fowls\" to Twitter, \u003ci\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/i\u003e is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAriana Reines is author of \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) \u003ci\u003eThe Cow \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and \u003ci\u003eCoeur de Lion\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). Her play \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and won several Obie awards. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in New York, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451294499065,"sku":"9781951142162","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tnPwOAwuBM9781951142162.webp?v=1772053338","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-sand-book-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}