{"product_id":"ifinjl","title":"I Find It Hard To Open, by Jason Ly","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 48 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 href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContent Warning: Mentions of depression and suicide\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Find It Hard to Open\u003c\/em\u003e is a long poem about the author's experience with depression and the challenges of being open and honest with others. Dazed and prone on the floor, this poem is too “busy doom scrolling through my thoughts” to get out of bed today, drifting from memory to imagined memory while “slowly sinking into the muck” of living.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis chapbook is formatted in a way to mirror the feelings of isolation and depression, each word in this chapbook takes one line of space and is placed near the inner margins\/gutter of the book as if the words are hiding\/sinking helplessly into the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJason Ly is an artist based in Virginia, USA and author of \u003cem\u003eTouch Grass: A Collection of Grass Taken from A Walk Around the Block\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMicrocosms - Micropoems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Morbin - Minimal Poems inspired by: Dr. Michael Morbius\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGutterball\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2017 he received the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in New Media. He enjoys playing with words, shapes and cats. His booklet \u003cem\u003efrom GRAMTAN\u003c\/em\u003e is available at The Blasted Tree press, his work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eStreetcake Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoemeleon\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Vital Sparks\u003c\/em\u003e. More of his work can be found at @jason_ly_art and jasonlyart.com.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jason Ly","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":45380922802491,"sku":"IFINJL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":45380922835259,"sku":"IFINJLe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/find2front.png?v=1686256691","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/ifinjl","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}