{"product_id":"calijh","title":"California Burning, by Jennifer Handy","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 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\"\u003eCalifornia is burning! From the eerie beauty to the sheer terror, experience the California wildfires in poetry. From the enormous Dixie Fire, whose smoke spread across the country, to the tiny fire just over the hill, how can you tell if you’re in danger, if you and your family are about to burn? \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUsing the extended metaphor of birth, the poems cover the fire’s origins, modern fire-fighting methods, environmental concerns, and the effects of the fires on the land, the wildlife, and the people, who live scattered far from one another in one of the most sparsely populated regions in the United States.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems capture both the devastation and the surreal, unearthly quality of wildfires, which are portrayed as being, simultaneously, part of nature and outside it. Have you ever seen a wildfire sunset? Heard every bird go silent? Did you know that animals too can scream? \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpecial attention is given to those people who, even today, eke out a precarious existence in the rural landscape of Northern California, where they homestead, living out of ramshackle cabins and rundown buses, people with very little who stand to lose everything they have. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poetry is unflinching in its portrayal of nature and never sentimental, yet it could move the hardest heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJennifer Handy explores sexuality, psychological trauma, mental illness, homelessness, severed family relationships, and environmental issues through fiction and poetry. Her fiction has been published in \u003cem\u003eA Plate of Pandemic\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMAI: Feminism \u0026amp; Visual Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eBridge Eight\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poetry is forthcoming in the \u003cem\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Handy","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47958443131195,"sku":"CALIJH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47958443163963,"sku":"CALIJHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/californiaburningfront.png?v=1710360000","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/calijh","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}