Coeur De Lion

Ariana Reines

Fence Magazine

Coeur de Lion is a book-length epistolary love poem that directly addresses a recently lost “you”—in accessible tones yet with extreme erudition and fierce intellect—but that also directly addresses the work of poetic address, how it shifts when the you shifts from a literal recipient, through loss, to poetry itself: art form, tradition; soul-catching medium. It’s libidinal, heartful, hot with the memory of what was libidinal and heartfelt and hot. It’s also a cult classic: self-published in 2007 and available now to an audience who will recognize the deep influence it has had on contemporary poets and poetry.