[01/03/25] Reines, Ariana: Wave of Blood

Divided Publishing, paperback

Publication Date: January 03, 2025

Publisher Marketing: WAVE OF BLOOD is an experimental essay in the poetry of witness, a contemporary war notebook, extending through the US wars on terror that officially began in 2001.

"Mind-blowing." -- Kim Gordon

"Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention. She moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self." -- The New York Times

"These are the kinds of poems that reorient you in the world, make you understand how little you know, but how much is inside you." -- NYLON

"Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. -- Ben Lerner

In a style characteristic of the New York School, her work is embodied, often painfully so, as she intrepidly goes where the poem moves her, from Western Europe to the Middle East, through war, ancestral grief, and insanity. -- Juliette Jeffers, Interview Magazine