{"product_id":"killml","title":"Killing Rattlesnakes, by Molly Lynde","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKilling Rattlesnakes\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of endurance and continuity, a kaleidoscope of images and anecdotes drawn from the lives of real grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and a long-ago cousin. It reminds us that traces of our predecessors reside in us and give us strength. Each of us bears the mark of someone's gift, someone's sacrifice, someone's yearning, someone's instinctive action, someone's gut claim to life. We are part of a larger story.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe women described in these poems bequeath the work of their hands, their love of being behind the wheel, and their chromosomal errors. They sacrifice and they don't. They have a need to move to the big city and to drive barefoot. Their faces speak silently to us from hundred-year-old photographs, telling us that they are somehow still here. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKilling Rattlesnakes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to foremothers, starting with a namesake and expanding to others. It explores past-present connections that create identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMolly Lynde lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her poetry appears in \u003cem\u003eHeron Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRue Scribe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStone Poetry Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStonecrop\u003c\/em\u003e, among other journals. She co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eTransference\u003c\/em\u003e, a literary journal featuring poetry in translation, from 2012 to 2020. Read \u003cem\u003eTransference\u003c\/em\u003e at https:\/\/scholarworks.wmich.edu\/transference\/\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Lynde","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47321410502971,"sku":"KILLML","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47321410535739,"sku":"KILLMLe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/rattlesnakesfront.png?v=1699130345","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/killml","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}