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InâŻThe Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of⯠âromanceâ as the troubadours knew it and the titular flowerâs ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: âI have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind.â In these poems, inherited ideologies ofâŻgender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speakerâs understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul.Â
The voice inâŻThe RoseâŻis wry and bare,âŻapproaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humor. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the roleâŻof language in magical acts, Reines is unafraid toâŻuncover the âsecret / & terrible shovelings / Of love,â and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.
Paperback | 96 pages | 6.00" x 8.95"
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InâŻThe Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of⯠âromanceâ as the troubadours knew it and the titular flowerâs ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: âI have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind.â In these poems, inherited ideologies ofâŻgender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speakerâs understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul.Â
The voice inâŻThe RoseâŻis wry and bare,âŻapproaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humor. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the roleâŻof language in magical acts, Reines is unafraid toâŻuncover the âsecret / & terrible shovelings / Of love,â and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.
Paperback | 96 pages | 6.00" x 8.95"
