{"product_id":"linejp","title":"Line in the Throat, Something in the Sand, by Jamie Packs","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, illustrated, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLine in the Throat, Something in the Sand \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of poems and images that rejects the imperialist fantasy of the individual author and asks instead asks what it might look like to write in collaboration with the world. The collection seeks to embrace collectivity, simultaneity, happenstance, contradiction, and the unconscious in place of extraction, teleology, individualism, logic, and control. The resulting poetic terrain is, perhaps, a strange one—inhabited by rubbing boulders, eyeless shrimps, fingernails, galaxies, and grapefruits. Yet here we are. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the poems in the collection are derived from automatic writing exercises, devised rituals, found objects, and overheard conversations, among other sources. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eLine in the Throat, Something in the Sand\u003c\/em\u003e suggests this: There are things about which we do not know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJamie Packs is a writer based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University and is currently pursuing a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He keeps a dream journal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jamie Packs","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39595690459207,"sku":"LINEJP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39595690491975,"sku":"LINEJPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/linefront.png?v=1677443912","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/linejp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}