{"product_id":"_joltjw","title":"The Jolt: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, by Julie Weiss","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" align=\"justify\"\u003eAfter exchanging an ardent glance on a morning commuter train, two strangers disembark at the next station. Thus begins \u003cem\u003eThe Jolt: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich\u003c\/em\u003e, a modern-day romance in which the narrator, a drifter seeking to reinvent herself on foreign soil, uses spare, captivating verse to contemplate her burgeoning love affair with a woman who, through the most serendipitous of accidents, knocks her “off the track of [her] life.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike a lover's “frenzied hands,” these poems, born of both personal experience and a striking imagination, undress every inch of our senses, from buttered croissant to rippled breath to a busker's soulful song. But the author's work is not a mere outpouring of passion. Weiss has deftly crafted her images to echo the bold and exquisite love poems written by her lifelong idol, Adrienne Rich. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Jolt is much more than a book. It's a perfumed envelope sealed with a kiss, which, once opened, reveals a letter of adoration addressed at once to the narrator's lover, the author's wife, the art of poetry, and to the legendary poet who inspired these twenty-one poems that aim to celebrate the beauty and resilience of lesbian love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJulie Weiss (she\/her) is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Places We Empty\u003c\/em\u003e, her debut collection published by Kelsay Books. Her poem “Poem Written in the Eight Seconds I Lost Sight of My Children” was selected as a finalist for \u003cem\u003eSundress\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2023 Best of the Net Anthology. She won \u003cem\u003eSheila-Na-Gig\u003c\/em\u003e’s Editor’s Choice Award for her poem “Cumbre Vieja”, was named a finalist for the 2022 Saguaro Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for \u003cem\u003eKissing Dynamite\u003c\/em\u003e’s 2021 Microchap Series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears in \u003cem\u003eRust + Moth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eONE ART\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSky Island Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOrange Blossom Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGyroscrope Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMacQueen’s Quinterly\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Originally from California, she lives in Spain with her wife and two young children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julie Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44600950128955,"sku":"_JOLTJW","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44600950161723,"sku":"_JOLTJWe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/joltfront.png?v=1697489816","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_joltjw","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}