The Cow has been described as one that "appropriates and shreds other texts, but which sometimes hides the theft; a search for beauty under piles of carcasses both metaphorical and real"; the same review pointed out that "in the context of such fraught, relentless hammering, such brief moments of beauty can risk seeming like desperately mimed cliches." Coeur de Lion Coeur de Lion (Mal-o-Mar, 2007; reissued by Fence Books, 2011) is a book-length poem addressed to an elusive, fractured, "you," who Reines has stated constitutes "the 'you' of YouTube and advertising...what the impoverished 'I' is made of." It depicts the unravelling of a love affair between the narrator and this addressee. The title is a twin reference to King Richard the Lionheart, as well as the brand of camembert. Telephone Telephone was performed at the Cherry Lane Theater in February 2009. It is based on The Telephone Book: Technology — Schizophrenia — Electric Speech by philosopher Avital Ronell, and has been described as an "inspired and utterly original new tone poem of a play" and "not for everyone". Telephone consists of three sections: one recreates the first ever phone call, between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson; the second is centered around Ms. St., a patient of Carl Jung who believed she had a telephone inside of her; the third brings the three characters together. The play won two Obie Awards, one for Birgit Huppuch's performance as Ms. St., and another for Ken Rus Schmoll as director. The second act of Telephone was expanded into a short piece entitled Miss St.'s Hieroglyphic Suffering, and was presented as part of The Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series in November 2009, again starring Birgit Huppuch. Mercury Mercury (Fence Books, 2011) consists of several intermeshed long poems. Its five sections each begin with alchemical symbols, which, according to B.K. Fisher, writing for the Boston Review, places the reader "in a realm where the transmutation of materials is an analogy for personal purification and esoteric or spiritual quest." Reines has stated that Mercury is "a ground, a field, a structure in which the poems can resonate together as much more than merely themselves." A Sand Book A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019) is a psychedelic meditation on climate change, violence, peacocks, Paul Celan, surveillance, the sun, the occult, Judaism, time travel, the dissolution of language, and more. It consists of twelve sections of poems