{"product_id":"lettdb","title":"Letters to _____; or Restless Quintet, by David Boeving","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWritten across five nights to an unnamed addressee who’s quarantined “in the other room,” \u003cem\u003eLetters to _____; or, Restless Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e documents the worries, frustrations, and affections of someone struggling to sleep while someone they love struggles to breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrasping for connection through what’s audible—coughing that sounds like “slate crumbling” or “a stump a saw splits”—this series of five letter-poems drifts dizzyingly through associations – linking well-wishes and pleas for recovery with concerns of climate change, community safety, commercialism, and household chores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIncluding prose exploring the intersection of trauma, disease, insomnia, and poetic form, \u003cem\u003eLetters to _____; or, Restless Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e asks how writing can help us make sense of experiences that “seem senseless.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“An exquisitely moving vigil. Intense in its solitary reverie. Boeving’s Letters read like a waking dream of longing and love.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e—Rob Halpern, author of \u003cem\u003eHieroglyphs of the Inverted World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDavid Boeving (they, them) is a writer, a teacher, and a psychotherapist. David has earned an MA in Creative Writing, and an MSW in Clinical Social Work. They teach at Eastern Michigan University, tutor writing in the Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility, and work with a community team to produce wellness-focused writing content through YpsiWrites' Write for Wellness initiative. David lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with their spouse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Boeving","offers":[{"title":"Print Chapbook","offer_id":50197529919803,"sku":"LETTDB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50197529952571,"sku":"LETTDBe","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/front.png?v=1744300015","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/lettdb","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}