{"product_id":"aboymw","title":"a boy named jane, by M. Wright, with art by Leah Fargo","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, paperback, 84 pages, illustrated, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis new edition of M. Wright's \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative re-release with artworks by Minneapolis artist Leah Fargo. Leah teamed with poet M. Wright to create art works that elevate each poem in \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e. This re-release calls upon the reader to consider the narrative collection from both a linguistic and visual perspective with the juxtaposition of each of the 39 paintings and their correlating poems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of narrative poetry that follows the coming-of-age of an adolescent as he navigates crisis. In these poems, M. Wright’s musings on purpose, death, love, the existential, and the body oscillate from fear to excitement to contentedness to find a kind of solace in the unknowable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I am glad that M. Wright has written a chapbook that focuses heavily on cows and organic material. I used to live beside a cow pasture. Whenever I would pass beside it and see cows walking around, eating, etc., I would always think to myself that the cows seemed mysterious and beautiful. The investigations of life, death, process, and organism contained in Wright’s chapbook are earnest and emotional. This is my favorite passage from \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e: ‘in my dream \/ you were a cow \/ and you were me.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLuis Neer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It isn't rare for me to use words as fodder for generating imagery—but I'd never read words which hit me quite like those in \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e. The simplicity of language is deceptive, as the more time you spend with each phrase, the deeper you can tread down a rabbit hole of existential musings (in the disguise of poetry about cows.) Wright's novel use of language inspired experimental uses of paint which attempt to interpret the heart of each poem as I perceived it. To spend time churning these words into paintings was a growth experiment in my own artistic process and a reflection of the exceptional thematic content of \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Leah Fargo, artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. Wright is the author of \u003cem\u003eDear Dementia\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2017) and the winner of The Atlantis Award for poetry. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eGlass Poetry Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSquawk Back\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGhost City Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ecahoodaloodaling\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTemenos Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. More at: wrightm.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M. Wright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556568744007,"sku":"ABOYMW","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556568776775,"sku":"ABOYMWe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/a-boy-named-jane_-by-M.-Wright_-with-art-by-Leah-Fargo-Bottlecap-Press-1656793309.jpg?v=1656794292","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/aboymw","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}