{"product_id":"_animgr","title":"The Animate Veil, by Gregory Ross","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Animate Veil\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of questionable visions. Passing sights that make you wonder if what you’ve seen is real or just the playful foisting of an internal world run amok before the mind’s eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnsettling, comical, narrative, dreamlike, often appearing and vanishing with the flashbang of a satori slap, each of the poems in this collection were born from the tumult and motion of an active mind draped across the physical plane perceived. These are poems of subliminal drift and visual movement, hallucinations tethered to a metamorphic reality where identity, space, and time have given up their reins to the fluidity and dance of the unconscious theater alive in the wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Pull back this veil and enter a world where Schopenhauer and Whitman arm wrestle in the desert, argyle socks limp down sidewalks, and houses are built of apple cores. Part walking meditation, part fever dream, \u003cem\u003eThe Animate Veil\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a stolen rabbit, ends with a melting snowman, and along the way Ross wrestles with language and meaning-making in ways only a poet-wanderer can: “What would it taste like to sink my teeth into a star?” he asks above the roar of dizzying, unforgiving winds, along suburban streets, near the edge of oblivion. At the heart of these poems is the beautiful truth of witness and the wild witness of dream.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Alexis Orgera, author of \u003cem\u003eDust Jacket\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGregory Ross is a peripatetic poet and music journalist from the northwestern woods of New Jersey. Author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eNotes from the Parking Lot of Lost Hopes and Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e (Alien Buddha Press, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gregory Ross","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49174263398715,"sku":"_ANIMGR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49174263431483,"sku":"_ANIMGRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/veilfront.png?v=1721066704","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_animgr","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}