{"product_id":"_girlcsh","title":"The Girl and the Gifts, by Colleen S. Harris","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Girl and the Gifts\u003c\/em\u003e seamlessly weave myth, legend, family history, and love of land and seascape together into a compelling collection asking the reader to hold the tension of the opposites—the sacred and the mundane, the mythic and the quotidian. The poet asks us to interrogate how the family tales we inherit shape us, and how we can make space for ourselves while also paying homage to ancestry, memory, and the injuries and balms of human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThese poems invite the reader to explore the way even the most ordinary person’s life has a mythic sweep—from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Ireland to Appalachia, and the details of stew seasonings and the hush of a closed library. \u003cem\u003eThe Girl and the Gifts\u003c\/em\u003e employs musical language, perceptive line breaks, and vivid images to deliver a spellbinding experience that encourage readers to pause for a moment and take inventory of the various forces, seen and unseen, that had to align just so to bring them to their present moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eColleen S. Harris holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University and an MA and PhD in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, among other degrees. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Light Becomes Us\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThese Terrible Sacraments\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kentucky Vein\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGod in My Throat: The Lilith Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, and chapbooks \u003cem\u003eToothache in the Bone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThat Reckless Sound\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSome Assembly Required\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poems appear in \u003cem\u003eBerkeley Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Louisville Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCider Press Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and more than 80 other literary publications. Harris grew up on Long Island and has made her career as an academic librarian in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, California, and most recently Texas, where she serves as Dean of the Sue \u0026amp; Radcliffe Killam Library at Texas A\u0026amp;M International University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colleen S. Harris","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50416890380603,"sku":"_GIRLCSH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50416890413371,"sku":"_GIRLCSHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/giftsfront.png?v=1751847494","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_girlcsh","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}