Joan

Joan - Paperback

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Joan - Paperback

Joan - Paperback

by Jake Rose
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Book Overview

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, JOAN is structured as an excavation of the speaker's most intimate moments, combining poetry with historical quotations, visual collage, and a sequence of film stills. Through vivid lyric moments, the poems construct a speaker and world both intimate and charged­--"I have to touch my farthest feeling," "the sapphire dusk draping its lace arias"--with clarity and vibrant intensity. Refusing resolution, these poems dwell in rupture, reinvention, and fluid forms of gender that come to life outside of inherited boundaries. This collection speaks from the margins, searching for a body the self might inhabit and asking what it means to transform through language, gender, and desire.

JOAN is the winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize.
ISBN9780226848235
Author Jake Rose
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreNews & politics and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages96
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Joan

Joan - Paperback

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By Jake Rose

About Jake Rose

Jake Rose is a poet, artist, and educator living in California's Central Valley. Rose teaches at the University of California, Davis, and has published poems in West Branch, The Seventh Wave, and Adult Groceries, among other journals. Other projects include The Art of the Death, a book-length erasure poem; Spectropoetics, a GPS-based project in interspecies writing; and The Month Books, a series of handmade chapbooks exploring ritual, place, and hybrid form.

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