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Mercury (2011)

by Ariana Reines(Favorite Author)

4.35 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1934200476 (ISBN13: 9781934200476)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Fence Books

review 1: A really strange book. It's rare I can sit down and read a book of poetry instead of preferring to read poems one at a time, spaced out, but this one was okay to sit down and read. I liked the first section the most and felt it was most successful. It made me feel awful, but because a lot of it rang so true, especially the parts about misogyny. The title of the volume, Mercury, felt really apt. It brings to my mind ideas about fluidity and change in people, which I felt some of the poems really spoke to. Strange, but worth reading.
review 2: Scathingly ambitious—repeatedly, deliberately mawkish and cunning and innocent—and obsessed with assfucking. Reines's work is singular, perfectly Not What You Learned in MFA School, studded with grotesquerie and high se... morentimentality and arch intellectual clunkiness, it does not Belong, it is Other, it is part of the non-tradition or anti-poetic this writer almost picked up from Norman Dubie, the crazy-fou Beat/NY/Blake vein of American lyric, and I don't think even Ashbery grasps the nettle with such intensity and devotion and pure malformed selfness. I am not saying this well. You should read it yourself. The most challenging of all her work so far I think, grimmest and more spirited and altogether less human. The loas still want to speak to us. less

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