{"product_id":"the-cow-9780977106479","title":"The Cow","description":"\"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\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARIANA REINES was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She holds degrees from Barnard College and The European Graduate School, and she was a doctoral student at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is at work on a novel, The New Life, and a film.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fence Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725357617426,"sku":"9780977106479","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_981ce957-12bd-4d1f-8458-29eb52b727c3.jpg?v=1734827716","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cow-9780977106479","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}