{"product_id":"centmp","title":"Centonials, by Masin Persina","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 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\"\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eCentonials\u003c\/em\u003e are made from New York Times articles published one hundred years, to the day, prior to their own composition. These poems want to time travel, taking note of what musical artists, such as Boards of Canada, accomplish, which is to find a very specific emotion from the past. As poems lack vintage synthesizers (unfortunately) these \u003cem\u003eCentonials\u003c\/em\u003e use the language of old news articles as their material.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSurreal, empathetic, wondrous, the poems in \u003cem\u003eCentonials\u003c\/em\u003e speak to our current moment’s absurdities by using the language of the past to bring to light again the names, ghosts and emotions long buried beneath the mountains of public record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMasin Persina lives in Richmond, CA with his wife and daughter and their senior dog. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as \u003cem\u003eSixth Finch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUgly Duckling Presse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He received the Lucille Clifton Scholarship through the Community of Writers and is a graduate of UC Davis MFA program. He currently teaches new teachers how to teach in the Humanities in the East Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Masin Persina","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49270767190331,"sku":"CENTMP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49270767223099,"sku":"CENTMPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Centonialsfront.png?v=1723317086","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/centmp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}