{"product_id":"maulsec","title":"Mauled by Bull Ants Outside the Highpoint Shopping Centre, by Samantha Edith Cooper","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 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;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\u003eMauled by Bull Ants\u003c\/em\u003e is the history of a secret holy war, leaping body to body, of Guilt against Recollection, Frivolity against Deceit, God against Opacity, Squirrels against Farmers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis narrative travels between geographic coordinates, nexuses of the brain embodied as observers - some silent and washing their hands of the affair, some interrogative and dirty up to the elbow. As they pass the eye between them, a confused exchange takes form, reforms; its stakes becoming clarified and its mission more resolute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThus culminates a migration of eels into a moment of God, of loss and love and recapture always present. In Mauled by Bull Ants, you have your cake and eat it, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe work is pseudo-ekphrastic in concept, yet attempts to transcend this concept altogether. Navigating through allusion to musical inspirations - including and especially the title of the piece, a lyric from Tropical Fuck Storm's song \"You Let My Tyres Down\" - what commences as a cacophony of antagonistic cherub voices transforms into the coagulate of a single, solemn, sacred chant overflowing with frantic love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlease, have a seat, and make yourself at home. Dinner is almost ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSamantha Edith Cooper is a fiction writer and poet working out of Chicago, Illinois, USA. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from DePaul University. Her work has been featured in \u003cem\u003eorangepeel literary magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and in \u003cem\u003eHooligan Mag\u003c\/em\u003e's Spilled Ink column. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samantha Edith Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44077811237179,"sku":"MAULSEC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44077811269947,"sku":"MAULSECe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/antscardstockfront.png?v=1677443915","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/maulsec","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}