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…has a poet indulged an orgy of self-speculation of these proportions.”
At The Boston Review, B.K. Fischer takes a close look at Rumpus contributor Ariana Reines’ poetry of the erotic sublime, focusing on her two recent collections, Cœur de Lion and Mercury.
...moreTriple Canopy excerpts Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, translated by Ariana Reines. The book, originally published in France in 1999, is out this month from Semiotext(e).
“The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female.
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Ariana Reines’ Coeur De Lion makes me want to drink and have sex. Not frilly drinks but hard strong liquor, and not just any sex, but the stuff of human explosions.
I’ve been told that it’s harder to make friends once you are an adult because in order to be close to someone you have to be vulnerable.
I was told this as though it is impossible for mature adults to be vulnerable.
...moreYou just texted me two cock pics
It used to be more artful
The way you did it, the composition.
Like last week. It just stopped raining.
I have a cold quicksilver feeling.
I could put this in a place where you could find it
But I am hiding it here.
Cœur de Lion is a lyric book, a book about being in love with someone you can’t have, and it unflinchingly acknowledges that the person she falls for is kind of awful.