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Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781772012248
Pages: 112
Pub. Date: April 15 2019
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.3125"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE011000

  • POETRY / Canadian

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My Heart is a Rose Manhattan

By Nikki Reimer

My Heart is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. The poems are cutting yet tender; sorrowful yet filled with righteous anger, absurdist at times but still recognizable, reassuring us that “it’s ok to grieve forever.” There is death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life away from the urban centres of Canada. This book wants to “subvert the literary industrial complex,” but also crash in like the Kool-Aid meme with all-caps non sequiturs and “overdrawn affluenza.” These poems are addicted to social media and simultaneously well versed in feminist theory. Some of the poems rail against the abuses of rape culture, asking: What is excusable? Who is implicated? Who is believed?

"My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan... is an existential reaction to city and state, told with a heaping dollop of fugue and refrain."
Quill & Quire

"[My Heart is a Rose Manhattan is] darkly funny by not shying away from how unfunny death can be"—Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press

"My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan... is an existential reaction to city and state, told with a heaping dollop of fugue and refrain."—Quill & Quire

"[My Heart is a Rose Manhattan is] darkly funny by not shying away from how unfunny death can be."—Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press

"Reimer has fashioned a remarkably genuine poetic voice."—Arc

"[My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan] is rich, it is complicated, it demonstrates incredible skill, and it rewards the reader."—Prairie Fire