
Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." --Kim Gordon
DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex...

Longlisted for the National Book Award "Mind-blowing." ―Kim Gordon DEADPAN, EPIC, AND SEARINGLY CHARISMATIC, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning...


A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language...

A Sand Book is comprised of a series of lyrical essays and poems situated in the American southwest. Surrounded by outdoor gods, powerful natural forces, and political upheaval, Ariana Reines's lyric forms emerge as shockingly as flora in the desert. Her gaze pierces the thin...