Name: The Rose
SKU: 64819719
Price: 14.96 EUR
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Author: Ariana Reines
ISBN: 9781837311736

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Publisher

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Author

Ariana Reines

Year

2026

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9x1.5 cm

ISBN13

9781837311736

The Rose

Ariana Reines (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Rose"

Fury is very lustfulA body concealing its heart’s desireHas a certain textureA tang or an edge if you willThat the openhearted cannot match& when exactly does the deceitfulHeart open? At climax. —from ‘The Hanged Man’The Rose navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of ‘romance’ as the troubadours knew it, and the titular flower’s ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, award-winning poet Ariana Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: ‘I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind.’ In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speaker’s understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul. The voice in The Rose is wry and bare, approaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humour. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the role of language in magical acts, Reines is unafraid to uncover the ‘secret / & terrible shovelings / Of love,’ and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.