This is Michael Silverblatt, producer and host of KCRW's bookworm.

Poet Ariana Rines was recently granted the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

It is the largest award granted to a emerging poet in mid-career.

The award is $100,000.

Ariana was on our show in July of last year, and we're broadcasting it today to honor her

and the fabulous prize that she has won. Thank you.

Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.

Boots!

Where would we be without booms? Where would we be without good?

No, Tenderberg. It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without good news into the bird? It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.

This is Bookworm, and I'm tremendously excited about our show.

My guest is Ariana Rines. Her book is called

a sand book. I've been awaiting this book for the last five years. In our times, the question

comes, will anyone still move me? Will anything still move me?

Well, I can practically offer a guarantee

that a sand book by my guest, Ariana Rines,

which has been published by Tin House,

is going to move you.

It's an amazing book. Poetry books are not automatic successes.

Your typical poetry book runs somewhere between 39 and 60 pages, right? The average poetry book. This book, a sand book, is nearly 400 pages long,

and, you know, people are trying to say what it is, it's this, it's that, it's Paul Ceylon,

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