My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan

by Nikki Reimer

My Heart is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. The poems are cutting yet tender; sorrowful yet filled with righteous anger, absurdist at times but still recognizable, reassuring us that "it's ok to grieve forever." There is death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life away from the urban centres of Canada. This book wants to "subvert the literary industrial complex," but also crash...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772012246
• ISBN13: 9781772012248
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"