{"product_id":"the-cow-paperback","title":"The Cow - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriana Reines\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beyond brilliant, \u003ci\u003eThe Cow\u003c\/i\u003e is a manifesto of the paradoxical girl-state in which disappearance beckons through presence.\"--Chris Kraus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. \u003ci\u003eThe Cow\u003c\/i\u003e is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. \"I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her.To call Ariana Reines' poetry scatological doesn't even scratch the surface. \"I COULD BE A DIAPER FOR THE DAY'S RESIDUALS,\" she writes, and, \"She clasped the event to her and proceeded. Fucked her steaming\/ eyehole and ended it.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Cow\u003c\/i\u003e is a body in the way that texts are bodied--\"Are you so intelligent your body doesn't have you in it.\"--but not in the way that allows the text to become desensitized, depersonalized, sterilized. Instead this text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. \u003ci\u003eThe Cow \u003c\/i\u003eis a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. \"I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 best living writers and \"a crucial voice of her generation\" by KCRW's Michael Silverblatt, Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her books include \u003ci\u003eA Sand Book\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House, 2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize \u0026amp; longlisted for the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Cow \u003c\/i\u003e(Alberta Prize, 2006), \u003ci\u003eCoeur De Lion\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eMercury\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), all from Fence Books, and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the World \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) from Semiotext(e). Her Obie-winning play \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eelephone\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and has been performed and published in Norwegian translation at the Mollebyen Literary Festival (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others. Recent commissions include \u003ci\u003ePossession\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), a major sculpture \u0026amp; performance collaboration with Liz Magic Laser, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, and \u003ci\u003eDivine Justice \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), a 24-hour theatrical environment at Performance Space New York. Reines' performances \u0026amp; theatrical works include: \u003ci\u003eMortal Kombat\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), commissioned by Le Mouvement Biel\/Bienne \u0026amp; performed at The Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA, and Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA, and \u003ci\u003eLorna\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) at Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York, USA, both in collaboration with Jim Fletcher, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the World \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) at Modern Art, London UK, and many others. Art exhibitions include \u003ci\u003ePubic Space \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), a collaboration with Oscar Tuazon at Modern Art in London, UK, \u003ci\u003eExhaust \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) at Contemporary Art Tasmania, AU, and \u003ci\u003eJane Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) at Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. Reines is the translator of Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eMy Heart Laid Bare\u003c\/i\u003e (Mal-O-Mar, 2009); Jean-Luc Hennig's \u003ci\u003eThe Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e) 2009); and Tiqqun's \u003ci\u003ePreliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(Semiotext(e) 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 107\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52586275209509,"sku":"9780977106479","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/uOA18-e8sC9780977106479.webp?v=1781611469","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/the-cow-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}