To Write in an Ugly Way
The poetry of Ariana Reines, of which I’ve written over the last two weeks, can sometimes feel eerily adolescent. Eery because her poetry is very adult in its intelligence, but pubescent in its affected interactions with the world. To me, it is the poetic version of the hit HBO series “Girls.” Drunk sex lives around the corner from Reines’s smart, prose-like poems. The following piece is a good example of this: Glass Formalism and grammar are ways to be thin. […]
Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, writing