{"product_id":"aribas","title":"A Ribbon with No Tail, by Alana Solin","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, 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 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\"\u003eFrom the outset, “Like a ring \/ that hits the ground rolling,” \u003cem\u003eA Ribbon With No Tail\u003c\/em\u003e is athletic and precise. The strategy these poems employ does not leave them static; in fact, the opposite. Each poem grabs a cut edge and unravels, revealing: “The game is silken \/ scattered, alive. There is \/ a plan for me.” The speaker looks at the sun hidden behind her reflected silhouette, watches ink move in water, and plays The Sims, but beneath the banal these poems carve secrets with pattern and motion. Objects run together and emerge transfigured: “The door becomes a wing, \/ the room its battered crane, \/ \u0026amp; the drum a hum.” Some bell of faith rings through this collection; some god stands just out of frame for the poems to flit toward and flee. In its luminous shadow, Solin writes formulas for what otherwise cannot be calculated, sums made of more than their parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlana Solin is a writer from New Jersey. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eTouch the Donkey\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTAGVVERK\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAfternoon Visitor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnnulet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSecond Factory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTyger Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alana Solin","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":46773336572219,"sku":"ARIBAS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":46773336604987,"sku":"ARIBASe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/ribbonfront_01bf05f1-b9c0-4f50-9696-613e5374d3fd.png?v=1697490575","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/aribas","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}