{"product_id":"flichgrs","title":"Flicker Noise, by Henrietta Goodman and Ryan Scariano","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 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\u003eFlicker Noise\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaboration between poets Henrietta Goodman and Ryan Scariano, consisting of dual-alphabets of acrostic poems that explore intersections of the human and non-human animal worlds. Poems from this project have appeared in \u003cem\u003eClade Song\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDASH Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fourth River\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFugue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTerrain.org\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese poems feature an assortment of animals, from banana slug to blue jay, earwig to emperor penguin, llama to lobster, unicorn to urchin. Some, like chickens and frogs, will be familiar; others, like the quagga and the zorilla, may introduce readers to animals which are much more unusual. This project, featuring two animal-poems for each letter of the alphabet (one by Ryan and one by Henrietta), will inspire readers to explore and appreciate their own connections to the animals (and human animals) in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I first read Pablo Neruda’s \u003cem\u003eStones of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e in grad school and was struck by the poet’s sparkly geode of a poem and his ability to speak to and about minerals in a way that transcends personification. This was when I began to believe that while I can never escape my subjective reality, I might, with a mind toward quiet awareness, use thoughtful personification to hear and translate something of what a bird or a rock or a fence has to say. I hoped the simple acrostic form, specifically an alphabet of animal acrostic poems, would lend itself to a manuscript that would let me tune my own awareness as well as make some children’s poems for adults. And rather than attempt objectivity, I embraced personal interference—I listened to the animal of myself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Ryan Scariano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"When Ryan asked me to collaborate on this project, I was excited to explore the potential of one of poetry’s oldest and most flexible forms—the acrostic has been used for thousands of years. From the beginning, my acrostics were as much an exploration of the human condition as they were studies of unique animalness. At first, I worried that this might result in failure to see the animals except through an anthropomorphic lens. As I was considering this, Ryan wrote a poem that surprised and moved me: a HUMAN acrostic addressing the idea humans forget, often willfully, our own animal-selves. After that, I embraced the search for connection between human and non-human nature, desiring not to see other animals as human, but to see humans as the animals we are.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Henrietta Goodman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRyan Scariano is the author of two poetry collections: \u003cem\u003eNot Your Happy Dance\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press) and \u003cem\u003eSmithereens\u003c\/em\u003e (Imperfect Press). Some of his recent poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe American Journal of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ebasalt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRock \u0026amp; Sling\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhantom Drift\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Oklahoma Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSOFTBLOW\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCirque\u003c\/em\u003e. He serves as an assistant poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eNarrative Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and lives in La Grande, OR, where he directs academic support services and teaches FYE, humanities, and writing courses at Eastern Oregon University. www.ryanscariano.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenrietta Goodman is the author of four books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eAntillia\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Nebraska Press), \u003cem\u003eAll That Held Us\u003c\/em\u003e (BkMk Press), \u003cem\u003eHungry Moon\u003c\/em\u003e (Colorado State University), and \u003cem\u003eTake What You Want\u003c\/em\u003e (Alice James Books). Her poems and essays have been published in \u003cem\u003eThe New England Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTerrain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBennington Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRiver Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e and more. She has received fellowships from the Montana Arts Council, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, and other organizations. She teaches at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT and lives in Billings and Missoula. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henrietta Goodman and Ryan Scariano","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49152337510715,"sku":"FLICHGRS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49152337543483,"sku":"FLICHGRSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/flickerhorizfront.png?v=1720638171","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/flichgrs","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}