Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. THE COW, the first book of poetry by Ariana Reines, won the 2006 Alberta Prize. "Anarchic, graphic, and literal, Ariana Reines' first book demonstrates the potential of poetry to cannibalize. She is a cow, grazing realms of experience explored by John Weiners, Helene Cixous, Bernadette Mayer, Bruce Andrews, Alfred Doblin, and reality television. Beyond brilliant, THE COW is a manifesto of the paradoxical girl-state in which disappearance beckons through presence, and you are completely alert to a point where you can no longer stand it"-Chris Kraus.
Synopsis
To call Ariana Reines' poetry scatological doesn't even scratch the surface. I COULD BE A DIAPER FOR THE DAY'S RESIDUALS, she writes, and, She clasped the event to her and proceeded. Fucked her steaming/ eyehole and ended it. The Cow is a body in the way that texts are bodied--Are you so intelligent your body doesn't have you in it.--but not in the way that allows the text to become desensitized, depersonalized, sterilized. Instead this text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her.
Synopsis
This text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. "I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her."
Synopsis
Beyond brilliant, THE COW is a manifesto of the paradoxical girl-state in which disappearance beckons through presence."
--Chris Kraus
About the Author
ARIANA REINES was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She holds degrees from Barnard College and The European Graduate School, and she was a doctoral student at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is at work on a novel, The New Life, and a film.