About the Author

Ariana Reines is author of The Cow (2006) and Mercury (Fall 2011). Her play Telephone was 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.

Reviews

"Scathing and meek, furious and thoughtful, reckless and careful, brave and frightened, Coeur de Lion is something you've never seen before that you already know by heart."--Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket "A book of frank witty poetry that makes me laugh, cry, throw things.'--Lena Dunham