{"product_id":"featlm","title":"feathering, by Livia Meneghin","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\"\u003eThrough connections with natural relatives and landscapes such as seabirds, rivers, and fig trees, Livia Meneghin navigates a bountiful world while carrying grief, doubt, and fear. Still, \u003ci\u003efeathering\u003c\/i\u003e is home to an abundance of love and protection for all she finds precious, including her own body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn particular, \u003ci\u003efeathering\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey of growth through a cancer diagnosis and coming into queerness as an adult. From new realities come not only challenges and adjustments, but imagination and hope. Meneghin dreams of a picnic where all the queer people of the world can rest and admire wildflowers together. She conjures the comfort of fuzzy puddles of ducklings and delicious muffin tops as reasons to keep going amidst climate catastrophe, fascist regimes, and personal mourning. These poems offer readers permission to connect with their people, their inner calm, and their beauty, all in joy and safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Livia Meneghin’s \u003cem\u003efeathering\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that joy is a salve, that intimacy is healing. Meneghin’s poems unearth heavenly sensations, creating an enclave of love—of the self, the body, the lover, and the earth. From ‘a quarrel of sparrows’ to ‘the mumbling clouds,’ these poems unfurl landscapes of ‘wildflowers overrunning.’ This book reminds us of the beauty of being alive, of existing in the face of extinction. Of the immense work of greeting each day, holding its heaviness with curiosity and lightness. ”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Tatiana Johnson-Boria, author of \u003cem\u003eNocturne in Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Livia Meneghin’s newest chapbook \u003cem\u003efeathering\u003c\/em\u003e winds together ecological attunements with queer tendernesses. These myriad tendernesses, as we witness through these poems, emerge from rage, illness, and survival: survival against the institutions that crave queer demise, survival against the betrayals of the heart’s floodplains. Meneghin is a poet whose deft image and form call out as ‘nearby sandpipers [calling] pink, pink, pink,’ and I am again and again and again slain in the spirit. ”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Rajiv Mohabir, author of \u003cem\u003eWhale Aria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLivia Meneghin (she\/her) is the author of \u003cem\u003eHoney in My Hair\u003c\/em\u003e and is the Sundress Publications Reads Editor. She’s humbly earned recognition from distinguished entities including the Academy of American Poets, the Writers’ Room of Boston, \u003cem\u003eBreakwater Review\u003c\/em\u003e’s Peseroff Prize, The Room’s Poetry Contest. Her writing has found homes in \u003cem\u003eGasher\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThrush\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSo to Speak\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Verse 2\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Since earning her MFA, she teaches writing and literature at the collegiate level. She is a cancer survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Livia Meneghin","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50250848764219,"sku":"FEATLM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50250848796987,"sku":"FEATLMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/featheringfront.png?v=1745879583","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/featlm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}