Thursday

by Ariana Reines

Poetry chapbook.

Genres: Poetry

27 pages, Hardcover

First published March 7, 2013

About the author

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007; Fence: 2011), and MERCURY (Fence: forthcoming fall 2011), plus the LP/audiobook SAVE THE WORLD starring Lili Taylor (Fence: forthcoming spring 2011).


Volumes of translation include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, (Mal-O-Mar:2009), The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig, (Semiotext(e): 2009), and the forthcoming Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the YoungGirl by TIQQUN, (Semiotext(e): 2012).


TELEPHONE, her first play, was commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theatre and presented at The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, February 2009. The production won two Obies and a spin-off was featured in the Works+Process series at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Fall 2009. TELEPHONE was be published in Fall 2009 in PLAY: A Journal of Plays.

Reviews

[Simone · Rating 5 out of 5]

reines is quickly becoming one of my favorite poets, and this is no good, because this means there are more books to buy, more books to read. this one (if you can track down a copy) is very much worth reading.

[Carrie Lorig · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of my students: she is like a glass cannon.

[Vicky · Rating 5 out of 5]

A long week, can't believe today is Thursday, but the highlight of the morning was an email notification that Ariana Reines's Thursday has arrived on hold for me so I went to get it
and just liked holding this chapbook
such a thick cardboard hardcover
"Blue Palestine" which is supposed to rhyme with "Blue Valentine" is included as the final poem in here
I'm on a book-buying FREEZE as I have to pare down my stuff
but I wish to have a copy just to hold
esp when it's Thursday night
just to reread lines like
—ok I thought I found a line to share earlier
but I didn't mark it down b/c it's a library book
This "review" doesn't say anything about the poems, sorry
oh here's a link to "Blue Palestine"
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/pr...

[Cassandra Troyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every time I read a book of Ariana's it feels like something I must savor, so before I actually attempt to read, I let the book linger on some table until I feel it keeps following me around the room with its spine eyes taunting me. This book was filled with new dust and made me afraid to hold it. (More notes on facts other than the affective points, later.)

[Rachel burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

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i mean, it's reines, & it's hard to dislike any of her work.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one really gets moving in the middle (I like the part about Ashton and Demi). Another crazy brilliant design by Spork Press.