My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. Cutting yet tender, sorrowful yet angry, these poems touch on death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life. Addicted to social media and simultaneously well-versed in feminist theory, My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan “subvert[s] the literary industrial complex,” but it also crashes in like the Kool-Aid meme with all-caps non sequiturs and “overdrawn affluenza.” Pull up a chair, get a drink – a rose manhattan, a quartz gimlet, or a gourmet ginger ale, if you prefer. A rose is a rose is a Rose Manhattan.
"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
By Nikki Reimer
Nikki Reimer creates poetry, essays, and multimedia artworks that interrogate capitalist structures and consider the variegated forms that grief can take.Her books of poetry include My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan and DOWNVERSE (Talonbooks), as well as [sic] (Frontenac House), which was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
news | 2019-10-15
Eight Track Is in the Building!
…( JUST LIKE I LIKE IT ) and Nikki Reimer ( My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan ) in Toronto on October 23 and in Montréal on …
news | 2019-03-14
Save the date: Talonbooks Spring Launch!
…Raziya Fong ( PEЯFACT ), and Nikki Reimer ( My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan ) will read from their hot-off-the-presses books. …
news | 2019-02-22
"more horse statues": a poem from Nikki Reimer's new book, My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan
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news | 2019-02-15
A Bouquet of Delights: My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan has arrived!
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