{"product_id":"delplra","title":"DELPHI, by Lindsay Remee Ahl","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDELPHI\u003c\/em\u003e is an excerpt from a longer manuscript called If a Dolphin. I was doing research on WWII, and I found the physics of that time particularly interesting. In 1938, when physicists first discovered fission, a paradigm shift happened—their understanding of how the world worked was reconceived. In science, the world often looks orderly—there are physical laws that usually remain in place, there are designs that are predictable, but fission revealed that that built into the atom itself was a randomness, an instability. It was at this time that Einstein and Bohr argued about how physical reality was structured and Einstein famously said, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe,” to which Bohr answered, “How do you know?” That seed of instability in the atom signaled a seed of chaos in the workings of the universe. That paradox that we all experience—a mix of order and chaos—inspired these poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eReality is often not as it seems. These poems are about a drowned girl who learns to swim, who travels after she dies, or after she comes back alive. They are about WWII, one of the reasons we pushed forward in fission research, and they are about the aftermath of loss, or failure, or losing something or someone who “shouldn’t” have been lost or who “should have” been saved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWhat is literally true is different from what is emotionally true: we are all traveling in time, burdened with our collective and personal history, with chance and violence. Inside our choices we have great agency, but we are all subject to what appears to be random events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn trying to get closer to understanding things it can feel like one of Zeno’s paradoxes: when you get half-way there, you still have to get half-way there. On the other hand, it’s also true that the shortest distance between two points is realizing they are the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLindsay Remee Ahl is the author of \u003cem\u003eDesire\u003c\/em\u003e, (Coffee House Press) which was nominated for a Discover New Writer’s Award and a Ruth Lily Award. Desire earned her a Fletcher Fellow to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. She has fiction and poetry published in \u003cem\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFiction Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. She has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She runs shadowgraf.com, an Arts and Culture Magazine. She has worked in the arts as a photographer, a filmmaker, a painter, and in publishing. Her website: https:\/\/www.lindsayahl.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindsay Remee Ahl","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50495221858619,"sku":"DELPLRA","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50495221891387,"sku":"DELPLRAe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/delphifront.png?v=1754940848","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/delplra","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}