Mercury

Ariana Reines

Composed in the direct, accessible, consciousness-piercing style readers of Ariana Reines’ first two books are wildly enamored of, Mercury comprises a group of long poems. These interlocking works speak to the substance and essence of what is said, transmitted, transacted, communicated between persons. Reines proposes that substance and essence are opposites, and explores this in contexts including commercial cinema and internet porn.