{"product_id":"the-rose-product-varient","title":"The Rose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe award-winning poet reckons with feminine archetypes, erotic love, and the shifting boundary between power and surrender\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFury is very lustful\u003cbr\u003eA body concealing its heart’s desire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHas a certain texture\u003cbr\u003eA tang or an edge if you will\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat the openhearted cannot match\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; when exactly does the deceitful\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeart open? At climax.\u003cbr\u003e—from ‘The Hanged Man’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003enavigates 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 \/ \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe voice in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \/ \u0026amp; terrible shovelings \/ Of love,’ and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ariana Reines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958686871688,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0362\/3698\/4456\/files\/The-Rose.jpg?v=1775999499","url":"https:\/\/shop.qvwc.org.au\/products\/the-rose-product-varient","provider":"QVWC SHOP!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}