The Rose: Poems MTO BOOKXPRESS 05-10 ―along comes Anne Keene

―along comes Anne Keene

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with the big school dance coming up

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The Rose: Poems MTO BOOKXPRESS 05-10 ―along comes Anne KeeneIn 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 flowers 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 replaced with bold