{"product_id":"lookdd","title":"Looking in Light, by Devaki Devay","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLooking in Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a chapbook following a speaker who explores their traumatic childhood through recollection, spanning the course of its existence through poems and prose which capture the often dissociative, uncanny nature of traumatized memory. It explores childhood bouts of escapism in fantasy, young adult senses of impending doom, terror, fury, bodily loss, and ends with an approach to the shore of healing: slowing down, and looking back. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe title references an old Indian tale told to children: a fool drops his ring under a streetlight, and it rolls into a dark crevice in an unlit region of the sidewalk. The man searches and searches for his ring, and when he is asked why he doesn't search in the dark, where the ring truly fell, he says: \"there is no light there. I cannot see.\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis chapbook unfolds from a similar fundamental paradox the speaker was burdened to carry since childhood. It tells the story of a young girl desperately looking for something in light when it had fallen in the dark – love hopelessly lost in the shadows, where she could not see, and she could not search.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDevaki Devay is an Indian writer whose works largely surround trauma as it is experienced through their cultural lens. In their free time, they like to volunteer at their local kitten shelter! Find their work at \u003cem\u003ePeatsmoke Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRoadrunner Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBarren Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and follow them @DevakiDevay on Twitter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Devaki Devay","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44513073692987,"sku":"LOOKDD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44513073725755,"sku":"LOOKDDe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/lookinginlightfront.png?v=1677875937","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/lookdd","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}