ARGONAUT BOOKS

The Rose, Reines's fifth and most captivating full-length collection, is all about bodies (historical, mythical, or contemporary). . . .What makes The Rose so pleasurable is that femininity and gender at large is not fixed, nor starved, of its personal needs. In a world overflowing with suffering, there is no want too great, too "silly" (or maybe it is, but who cares?) for Reines's narrator. It feels like a radical act of pleasureThe Poetry Foundation - Hannah BonnerAriana Reines's poetry is what happens when the goddess comes to earth. When ancient mysteries intersect with the effluvia of hum...Read More