{"product_id":"dirtsn","title":"Dirt Eaters, by Shilo Niziolek","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 20 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirt Eaters\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of grief centered around the dying and death of a beloved pet. Niziolek walks blithely through pre-grief, that nostalgic ache of what is to come and what will be lost, straight into present-moment grief, dangling precariously over that arduous cliff, and falls right down into the after, where dogs are dead, hearts decimated, and she curls her body tightly around the hollow space where love was.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough uncanny and keen awareness of the life cycles around her: squished spiders, crows playing in birdbaths, the “clean violet air, sharp-toothed after monsooning”, endless games of Farkle and the risk of love, the minutiae of dog days, a bag of ladybugs released in a garden, the seismic gap a body leaves, to discarded crawdad shells, dead visitations that happen in sleep, past tomatoes ripening; Niziolek asks us to consider the animalistic nature of loss and grief. In \u003cem\u003eDirt Eaters\u003c\/em\u003e we discover that what is holy and sacred may not be in the heavens, but here in a pile of grass where a dog took its last breath, or even deeper still, down in the dirt, where we all must come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShilo Niziolek has written \u003cem\u003eFever\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Winters In Me\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), \u003cem\u003eI Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), and \u003cem\u003eAtrophy\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming Sept 2023 Querencia Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eJuked\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHoney Literary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWest Trade Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEntropy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePork Belly Press\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePhoebe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e among others. Shilo is a writing instructor at Clackamas Community College and is the editor and co-founder of the literary magazine, \u003cem\u003eScavengers\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a queer disabled writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and their pit bull. Find her on Instagram and twitter @shiloniziolek\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shilo Niziolek","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":46145661763899,"sku":"DIRTSN","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":46145661796667,"sku":"DIRTSNe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/dirtfront.png?v=1697490486","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/dirtsn","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}