{"product_id":"horind","title":"Horizontal Ensemble, by Nolan Dannels","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 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\"\u003eComprised of seven poems whose titles combine orchestral sections with increasingly advanced weapons of warfare, \u003cem\u003eHorizontal Ensemble\u003c\/em\u003e thematically explores the historical sensation of destruction, both of bodies and of minds, through seemingly stream-of-conscious rhyme patterns and carefully crafted wordplay. These poems illustrate the conflict between identity and history, as well as the ardent will to overcome all odds in order to put our collective suffering into words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems dance from tone to tone and mood to mood. They are written in a fragmented style that complements the chapbook’s imagistic mode of dramatic storytelling. In a relatively experimental but not quite avant-garde fashion, these poems’ lines and stanzas read across the pages horizontally, forging textual landscapes for the reader to experience and leading them on a journey through mistakes made and life lessons learned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eUltimately, the message of \u003cem\u003eHorizontal Ensemble\u003c\/em\u003e is to know pain and to heal from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNolan Dannels is a Persian American writer and musician with a Master's in English Language and Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He studies modern and contemporary Anglophone poetry as a Literature PhD candidate at UC San Diego, where he served as the Editor in Chief of \u003cem\u003eAlchemy\u003c\/em\u003e. His writing appears in \u003cem\u003eKissing Dynamite\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTrouvaille Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWine Cellar Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWishbone Words\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSnakeskin Poetry Webzine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Verse News\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eQafiyah Review\u003c\/em\u003e, which nominated him for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology. His music appears in \u003cem\u003eHare's Paw Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nolan Dannels","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50027991204155,"sku":"HORIND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50027991236923,"sku":"HORINDe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Horizontalfront.png?v=1739561586","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/horind","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}