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Jake Rose reimagines the life and legacy of Joan of Arc by weaving lyrical poems and historical texts to explore that it means to break boundaries and transform oneself.
Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry. A narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and poetic voice.
Collapsing biography and autobiography, the poetry of Jake Rose’s debut explores queer identity, grief, and desire through the historical framework of Joan of Arc’s life. Moving through rural landscapes of the speaker’s youth, contradictions of faith, consequences of desire, and fragmentations of trauma, JOA...
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