{"product_id":"cloumm","title":"Cloud Sanctum [A Letter to My Daughter], by Marcus Myers","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 52 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 href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA feverish letter to kid and world written during a cancer scare, stored in \u003cem\u003ethe cloud\u003c\/em\u003e, which is figured as a shifting imaginary construct in this sequence of poems, conceptualized both as a digital Cornell Box and an egg, about the shockingly inherent (and inherited) difficulties of living and parenting well within this single lifetime. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach of us will one day have to leave the corporeal body, of course. And the speaker knows this marrow-deep as he inventories a few already-fading objects housed in memory’s reliquary. And still, as our planet threatens to tap the delete button on our species and many others, the speaker delights in how language expressing love and compassion gives the body salve in the present, and how it might just survive us, though disembodied, in the sanctum of the digital archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, Marcus Myers lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he teaches and serves as a co-founding editor of \u003cem\u003eBear Review\u003c\/em\u003e. A semifinalist in the 2019, 92nd Street Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest, his poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Common\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cortland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Florida Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHunger Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Laurel Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe National Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry South\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRHINO\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalt Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTar River Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTYPO\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWindfall Room\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marcus Myers","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44055490068795,"sku":"CLOUMM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44055490101563,"sku":"CLOUMMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/cloud2.png?v=1697489492","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/cloumm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}