The Rose: Poems

by Ariana Reines

In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines 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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644453347
• ISBN13: 9781644453346
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"