{"product_id":"gardpm","title":"Garden Variety, by Pat Miller","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 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\"\u003ePat Miller’s \u003cem\u003eGarden Variety\u003c\/em\u003e is a quietly visceral meditation on selfhood, dislocation, and the effort of surviving mundanely yet meaningfully. The poems are stitched together with intimacy in different forms – each piece full of fragmented thoughts, drifting observations, and half-formed realizations that move like weather through Miller’s mind. They are often rooted in physicality – the cold, the wind, the rain – and through this grounding, the reader is pulled into Miller’s efforts to understand time’s strange presence, the erosion of identity, and the elusive clarity of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDespite their domesticity – shaving outside, watching gutters fill with rain – these poems harbor a haunted, elegiac energy. Places like Arkansas and Louisiana occur both as real geographies and as internal territories, spaces where Miller can question his permanence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eGarden Variety\u003c\/em\u003e is a document of emotional entropy – a portrait of a person feeling himself go soft and brittle in tandem. The poems don’t proclaim revelation so much as stumble across it, then double back uncertainly. Through a variety of observations, Miller wrestles with loss, the slow decay of youth and connection, and whether meaningful attention is enough to stitch anything back together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003ePat Miller is a writer and former line cook currently bouncing around several locations in the American South. His work has previously appeared in several literary journals around the country, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Dilettante\u003c\/em\u003e of New Orleans, and his poetry frequently takes the form of self-produced zines. His interests and writing dwell on disillusionment, shared experiences, and connections between people, the world, and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pat Miller","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50456154603835,"sku":"GARDPM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50456154636603,"sku":"GARDPMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/varietyfront.png?v=1753291925","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/gardpm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}