{"product_id":"aboxgy","title":"A Box of Rooms, by Gerald Yelle","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 36 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 href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Box of Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e pretty much sums up this chapbook’s physical appearance. Though only some of the pieces, or “rooms,” are about rooms, they all have a kind of boxy look: solid justified micro-fiction paragraphs, many of them conveying a sense of claustrophobic confinement, within the boxlike confines of the covers. Rooms and boxes being three dimensional, there was also the idea that the contents add depth to the sheets of paper. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is also something dreamlike about a box of rooms: large containers stacked or squeezed into a smaller container. Many of the pieces have that dreamlike quality, and because the speaker knows that what is being described isn’t real, he is free to indulge exaggerated emotions: loneliness, cruelty, sadness, elation, anger and frustration, all of it masked by desperate stabs at humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGerald Yelle has worked in restaurants, factories, offices and schools. He received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts. He has published poetry and flash fiction in numerous online and print journals in addition to four books: \u003cem\u003eThe Holyoke Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e, Future Cycle Press (2014), \u003cem\u003eEvolution For The Hell Of It\u003c\/em\u003e, Red Dashboard LLC (2015), \u003cem\u003eMark My Word and the New World Order\u003c\/em\u003e, Pedestrian Press (2016), and \u003cem\u003eRestaurant in Walking Distance and Everything\u003c\/em\u003e, Cawing Crow Press (2016). An e-chapbook, \u003cem\u003eIndustries Built on Words\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Yavanika Press in 2020, and a chapbook \u003cem\u003eNo Place I Would Rather Be\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. He has an author page on Amazon.com and is a member of the Florence, Massachusetts Poets Society. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerald Yelle","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44213979775291,"sku":"ABOXGY","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44213979808059,"sku":"ABOXGYe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/rooms3front.png?v=1697489610","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/aboxgy","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}