{"product_id":"jean-paul-sartre-nausea-copy","title":"Ariana Reines: The Rose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin, 2026, softcover, 144 pages, 12.9 x 19.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFury is very lustful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA body concealing its heart’s desire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHas a certain texture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA tang or an edge if you will\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat the openhearted cannot match\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u0026amp; when exactly does the deceitful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeart open? At climax.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—from ‘The Hanged Man’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe force that drives \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis volcanic desire – and its self-imposed restriction. Digging deep into the ironies and raptures of true ‘Romance’, award-winning poet Ariana Reines measures the real thing against the love (or should we say sex) that poetry has always depended on. She 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe voice in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57921225916800,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/9781837311736-jacket-large.webp?v=1776780137","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/jean-paul-sartre-nausea-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}