{"product_id":"awalaam","title":"A Walk in the Garden, by Andrew Alexander Mobbs","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 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\"\u003eImagine me here after \/ you’re gone, unfurling through the epochs. \/ And I, a guest in your meadow, comply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–from “Oregon Iris”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Walk in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrew Alexander Mobbs reverentially spotlights an array of flowers and plants—many of which are overlooked and undervalued—thriving within the Willamette Valley in Western Oregon. Over time, he began to pay closer attention to these plants as he encountered them on his walks throughout the hills, forests, and gritty curbsides around Corvallis. Soon after, this series of sonically lyrical, linguistically nimble, image-laden poems moonlighting as micronarratives was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of necessity, several of these poems also foment a palpable sense of unease and exigency given our steadily warming planet amid human-caused climate change. These days, we don’t have much time to stop and smell the roses as they curl in the torrid heat, but we can at least appreciate them, bask in their depths, and try to remember our connection to them. \u003cem\u003eA Walk in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e aims to do this while acknowledging that no matter what, in the end, nature will prevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndrew Alexander Mobbs is the author of the chapbook, \u003cem\u003eStrangers and Pilgrims\u003c\/em\u003e (Six Gallery Press, 2013). A Pushcart Prize nominee, he's grateful his poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eTerrain.org\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrontier Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArkansas Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrab Creek Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Delta Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGhost Ocean Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and other fine publications. He's the co-founding editor of \u003cem\u003eNude Bruce Review\u003c\/em\u003e and a proud alum of Oregon State University's MFA program.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Alexander Mobbs","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49228847841595,"sku":"AWALAAM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49228847874363,"sku":"AWALAAMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/gardenfront_c5e48ba6-9df9-4db5-ab28-1425b8c9ff57.png?v=1722278638","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/awalaam","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}