Ariana Reines is author of Mercury, The Cow, and Coeur de Lion. Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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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 ... SEE MORE