{"product_id":"counmr","title":"Counter Voice, by Maxwell Rabb","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" 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\"\u003eOutside, a supercell looms over endless fields. Inside, the living room scalds to the touch. \u003cem\u003eCounter Voice\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds as a work of pastoral paranoia, where the home and its surrounding landscape collapse into a single psychological terrain. Again and again, the poems travel across treacherous landscapes, each scene charged with a growing sense of fear and anticipation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe tension throughout these poems draws on the idea of bathos: an eventual anticlimax, where the sublime suddenly gives way to the absurd. In these moments, when the world is destabilized, \u003cem\u003eCounter Voice\u003c\/em\u003e returns to the act of writing. Writing becomes a site where thought appears to arrive from elsewhere, as if spoken back to the poet. This phenomenon echoes the “counter voice,” a term explicitly mentioned by Hannah Weiner in her 1994 essay “Silent Teacher” to describe a form of clairvoyant feedback that emerges during the act of writing. A voice that reshapes the poem as it unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“When I awoke, I did not have the burst of electricity. My mind, however, never shut up talking to me, and as I would think of something it would add a useless phrase, such as ‘for the time being’ or ‘now.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e–Hannah Weiner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMaxwell Rabb lives in New York, leaving parts of his heart in New Orleans and Atlanta. He is a co-founding editor of \u003cem\u003eGROTTO\u003c\/em\u003e. He’s the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eFaster, the Whirl Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e (Greying Ghost, 2025). His poems have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eAction Books Blog\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTagvverk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTilted House\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003emercury firs\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. He completed an M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maxwell Rabb","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51045382390075,"sku":"COUNMR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51045382422843,"sku":"COUNMRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Counterfront.png?v=1773781602","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/counmr","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}