{"product_id":"howtnm","title":"How to Grow Blurry, by Nathan Metz","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\"\u003eNathan Metz’s debut chapbook \u003cem\u003eHow to Grow Blurry\u003c\/em\u003e incorporates ekphrasis, the lyrical essay structure, and various other established and invented forms to explore the distance between the name of a thing and the touch of a thing. The poems survey aspects of visual art (including paintings by Mark Rothko), touch, history, religion, memory, story-telling, and family, seeking intersections, divergences, and parallel lines. Thus, \u003cem\u003eHow to Grow Blurry\u003c\/em\u003e turns memory into “nothing but touch \/ and repeated touch”, history into “layers of projections of past touches touching” and language into layered and scrapable paint.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNathan Metz (he\/his) is a writer and teacher from California. His work has been featured in \u003cem\u003eAutofocus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePhantom Kangaroo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Racket\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoon City Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSanta Clara Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. A 3-time Shipsey Poetry Prize winner, Pushcart nominee, and Best New Poets nominee, his writing and translations have been supported by the Elk River Writers Workshop, Canterbury Program, and the Community of Writers. He is a Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathan Metz","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49018285097275,"sku":"HOWTNM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49018285130043,"sku":"HOWTNMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/blurryfront.png?v=1718834231","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/howtnm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}