{"product_id":"_pictmv","title":"The Pictures Always Look So Nice, by Matthew Valades","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 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 Pictures Always Look So Nice\u003c\/em\u003e flickers with scenarios and characters from the history of film, music, and television. Thelma and Louise return for a sequel. Kanye West contemplates the Unabomber. Judy Garland and Michigan J. Frog wink their way into Hollywood. Goldilocks makes porridge on Food Network. Parallels between Back to the Future II and T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton merge into a vivid retelling. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith appearances by singers, actors, and cartoons, these poems rework the famous and fabled into a charming puzzlement. A poetry of seeing and being seen emerges from pop culture, that common repository of the weird, everyday dreams we grow up with and wander through all our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatthew Valades’s poetry has appeared in journals in the US, UK, and Ireland including \u003cem\u003eThe Moth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Welsh Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pomegranate London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouth Carolina Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSubtropics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/em\u003e. His book reviews have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePN Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of the MFA writing program at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro, he works in acquisitions at the MIT Press and lives in Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Valades","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47229995614523,"sku":"_PICTMV","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47229995647291,"sku":"_PICTMVe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/picturesfront.png?v=1698352652","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_pictmv","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}