{"product_id":"astrs","title":"A Stranger You, by Sage","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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Stranger You\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poetry in the shadow of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, with poems written within their alternating voices. These works navigate the distances around and between family and friendship, and the inability of language to bridge those distances. The poems in A Stranger You come from a period of reflecting on leaving one found family to return to another, and learning that when you’ve left your heart behind, that hurting hole sits in you “fallow like a country you can’t cross but for spite.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSage’s debut chapbook collection, \u003cem\u003eA Stranger You\u003c\/em\u003e also confronts sexuality, gender, and their intersection within desire: “such is longing’s inevitability. whether you sate it or not \/ you will always be a creature that wants.” In lines unafraid of absurdity, these works grapple with the material details of the world. “The doors \/ open, a man with wings pinned to his shoulder \/ walks in \u0026amp; everyone who still believes cheers.” And in grappling with these new realities, \u003cem\u003eA Stranger You\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to make of them some sense amidst the loneliness and the longing:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          \u003cem\u003eI am afraid of the ocean. I am in love with the ocean\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          O—\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          sweetheart,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e          it’s the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSage received an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. They are the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eSaga City\u003c\/em\u003e. They live and work in Western Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sage","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47341620592955,"sku":"ASTRS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47341620625723,"sku":"ASTRSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/strangerfront_338bae7e-51c9-428e-a35d-a492267569b0.png?v=1699476109","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/astrs","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}