SAVE THE WORLD

by Ariana Reines

I wrote SAVE THE WORLD in one night, on May 3, 2009, in Oakland, California. Versions of it have been performed at Alphonse Berber Gallery in Berkeley, The University of California at Berkeley, The Mountain Bar in Los Angeles, Poetry Time at Space Space in Ridgewood, Queens, andThe Delta Mouth Literary Festival in Baton Rouge.

A large excerpt of SAVE THE WORLD was translated into French by Noura Wedell, as SAUVE LE MONDE, and is out now in the review NIOQUES.

SAVE THE WORLD is a full-length work, but is also a section of the forthcoming Fence title MERCURY, by me, Fall 2011. My contract with Fence requires that Mal-O-Mar publish SAVE THE WORLD in very limited release.

Genres: Poetry

76 pages

First published January 1, 2001

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.