{"product_id":"areyamss","title":"Are You Willing?, by Amy Marques \u0026 Sumitra Singam","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, prose, chapbook, illustrated, 36 pages, from \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmy and Sumitra both have professional experience working with clients or patients going through or working through traumatic experiences. In a small group, Amy shared an open invitation to collaborate with a writer who was interested in sharing unedited words as a source for an erasure\/visual poem project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSumitra responded to the invitation with courageous vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection is a response to our emailed conversation. Each image accompanies words that are reflections on the story told, creative modifications of the source email\/text, and micro essays and poems in reflection on the theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe invite you to eavesdrop on our exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmy Marques has been known to call books friends and is on a first name basis with many fictional characters. She’s widely published with visual art, poetry, and prose published in many lovely journals and is the editor and visual artist for the \u003cem\u003eDuets\u003c\/em\u003e anthologies and author and artist of the found poetry book \u003cem\u003ePARTS\u003c\/em\u003e. More at https:\/\/amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSumitra Singam is a Malaysian-Indian-Australian coconut who writes in Naarm\/Melbourne. She travelled through many spaces, both beautiful and traumatic to get there and writes to make sense of her experiences. Her work has been published widely, nominated for a number of Best Of anthologies, and was selected for \u003cem\u003eBest Microfictions 2024\u003c\/em\u003e. She works as a psychiatrist and trauma therapist and runs workshops on how to write trauma safely. She’ll be the one in the kitchen making chai (where’s your cardamom?). You can find her and her other publication credits on Bluesky: @pleomorphic2 and at sumitrasingam.squarespace.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Marques \u0026 Sumitra Singam","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49772130402619,"sku":"AREYAMSS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49772130435387,"sku":"AREYAMSSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/willingfront.png?v=1733862994","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/areyamss","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}