{"product_id":"kinghk","title":"King Yesenia, by Henrick Karoliszyn","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Yesenia\u003c\/em\u003e is a surreal desert elegy following an undocumented woman who renames herself after the death of her brother. Set against the haunted landscapes of the American Southwest, the work explores grief, migration, identity, addiction, and survival through fragmented visions and mythic prose-poetry. The title itself becomes an act of reclamation. “King” is not masculinity but sovereignty, a refusal to disappear in a country that has reduced her existence to legal status, labor, and fear. The desert acts as a spiritual borderland populated by peyote visions, junkyard prophets, narcotic cowboys, and ghosts who speak through its climate, memory, and machinery. At its core, \u003cem\u003eKing Yesenia\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on self-invention and spiritual endurance in a hostile world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe work asks what remains when boundaries, institutions, and even language fail to contain human experience. Through lyrical fragments, prophetic imagery, and emotionally raw confession, the chapbook constructs a mythology of the dispossessed. One where undocumented migrants, addicts, mourners, and queer outcasts become figures of tragic royalty. By the end, Yesenia emerges not healed but transformed, transporting her grief like wisdom, honoring the dead by continuing to fight for the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHenrick Karoliszyn is a writer based in New Orleans. His fiction was published in the 2025 \u003cem\u003eHemingway Shorts\u003c\/em\u003e literary anthology, shortlisted twice for The Letter Review Prize, named winner of the 2025 \u003cem\u003eBreakwater Review\u003c\/em\u003e fiction contest, and a finalist for the 2026 Ellis Prize in Fiction and 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. His writing has also been featured in \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSuperlative Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Swannanoa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFOLIO Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBULL\u003c\/em\u003e along with forthcoming editions of the \u003cem\u003eNew Ohio Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Write Launch\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henrick Karoliszyn","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51285364310331,"sku":"KINGHK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51285364343099,"sku":"KINGHKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/king2_cover.png?v=1779844255","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/kinghk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}