Coeur de Lion [Paperback]

Now that I am not addressing you
But the “you” of poetry
I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
But this “I” is the I of poetry
And it should be able to do more than I can do.

Just a few months after the publication of her prize-winning, instant classic debutThe Cow, Ariana Reines self-published this stunning book-length poem, now a cult object among readers of truly contemporary poetry.Coeur de Lionis an intensely personal, monologic meditation on longing, sex, and love between a speaker and the object of all her passions, which include thinking and writing.

Ariana Reinesis author ofThe Cow(2006) andMercury(Fall 2011). Her playTelephonewas produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and won several Obie Awards. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Now that I am not addressing you
But the “you” of poetry
I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
But this “I” is the I of poetry
And it should be able to do more than I can do.

Just a few months after the publication of her prize-winning, instant classic debutThe Cow, Ariana Reines self-published this stunning book-length poem, now a cult object among readers of truly contemporary poetry.Coeur de Lionis an intensely personal, monologic meditation on longing, sex, and love bl#