{"product_id":"howtsk","title":"How To Find a Husband, by Sarah Kennedy","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, paperback, 56 pages, illustrated, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn 1985, Wendy Stehling offered up a day by day guide to finding love in her book titled \u003cem\u003eHow To Find A Husband In 30 Days\u003c\/em\u003e. After finding Stehling’s book buried at a thrift store, Sarah Kennedy’s first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eHow To Find A Husband\u003c\/em\u003e, is part of a larger performance project involving following and documenting this guide. Utilizing corresponding partial photographs from her parents personal archives to create a planned dialogue between the written and the visual, the goal of the overall project boils down to: can intimacy be forced, planned, or controlled?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHow To Find a Husband\u003c\/em\u003e reads as a gossamer yet temporal choose-your-own-adventure manual which buries its hands into the cognitive dissonance of conjugality, all the while your mother's voice reminding you that the past is speculative at best, and that the future has already happened.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Kristine Leschper, artist and musician in \u003cem\u003eMothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"A squirrelish poem with speeding heart, turning and flipping alongside radiant squares of nostalgia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Rachel B. Glaser, author of \u003cem\u003eHairdo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePee on Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"This little book is a bit haunting... the photos often cut off just before they'd become recognizable, and the poems are spare and feel disembodied as well. You may have the sensation you've encountered this object before in a life you can't quite remember. In any case, it is an artifact that demands a close examination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKimmy Walters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSarah Kennedy is a printmaker, sculptor, and scorpio living in Athens, GA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556572119111,"sku":"HOWTSK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556572151879,"sku":"HOWTSKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/How-To-Find-a-Husband_-by-Sarah-Kennedy-Bottlecap-Press-1656793641.jpg?v=1656794304","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/howtsk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}