{"product_id":"deatam","title":"death poems, by Andy Mallory","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003edeath poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on fatality, loss, and the passage of time, consisting of twenty-eight couplets composed in homage to the timeless tradition from which the collection derives its name. By rendering an ancient pathos in modern poetic form, \u003cem\u003edeath poems\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a study in quietude and a reminder of the inextricable connection between death and life, the old and the new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMatsuo Bashō (1644-1694) famously claimed that any one of his poems could be his death poem, a sentiment congruent with the belief that all life is lived in anticipation of mortality. In the spirit of this sentiment, \u003cem\u003edeath poems\u003c\/em\u003e embraces the paradoxical concomitance of death’s brutal facticity with the transcendent human need to beautify it in every moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAndy Mallory is a bartender, musician, and philosophy instructor. He is the author of the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eSchopenhauer’s Dog\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and \u003cem\u003eFour Seasons of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). His fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eshoegaze literary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOvergrowth Press Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ejagged edge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Dread Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine with his partner and her two parrots. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram (@witheringvessel).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Mallory","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":67901124968763,"sku":"DEATAM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":67901125001531,"sku":"DEATAMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/death_cover.png?v=1793813657","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/deatam","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}