{"product_id":"ancigk","title":"Ancient Afternoons, by Grove Koger","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 24 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAncient Afternoons\u003c\/em\u003e looks back to the cradle of Western civilization and forward into our own psyches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eOdysseus ponders the tumult of his life and his travels, wondering, again and again, whether those adventures he remembers were nothing more than the visions of a dying man. Theseus struggles to escape the labyrinth in which he has trapped himself. And, millennia later, young Plato undergoes a traumatic event that he will eventually transform into one of the most enduring myths of the Western world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eInterspersed among these stories are brief glimpses of the realms that lie just beyond our own. Are they illusions or insights? Or could they be both?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrove Koger is the author of a reader’s guide to travel narratives, \u003cem\u003eWhen the Going Was Good\u003c\/em\u003e; a collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eNot\u003c\/em\u003e; three collections of short stories—\u003cem\u003eSomething Strange\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTreacherous Waters\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSun Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e—and a hybrid collection of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, \u003cem\u003eOut of Idaho\u003c\/em\u003e. He’s Assistant Editor of \u003cem\u003eDeus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and writes about travel and related subjects in his blog \u003cem\u003eWorld Enough\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Koger","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50482471534907,"sku":"ANCIGK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50482471567675,"sku":"ANCIGKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/ancientfront.png?v=1754426824","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/ancigk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}