{"product_id":"milljo","title":"Mill Town Sonnets, by Jamison Odone","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, illustrated, 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 style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" 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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I have spent most of my adult life writing and illustrating books that have nothing to do with poetry. As a young man, fresh out of college, I had the miraculous life experience of living in the same town and befriending legendary children’s book author illustrator, Maurice Sendak. Maurice taught me to be an artist more than anybody ever has. My first efforts in books were illustrated stories for children. That shifted to graphic novels for slightly older children. Now, I find myself at yet another shift.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry is nothing new for me. I have written and read it compulsively. Never have I ever had the confidence to do anything with my scribblings because foremost, I am an illustrator. I feel as though I have always been better at crafting images, over words. In 2022 I decided to take the dive. Write a quatrain every morning for a year. I failed. In July I petered out as life around me took over my thoughts. Failing is ok when you try I suppose. After my empty July I picked it back up again and wrote for another month until I reached around 200 quatrains. Some are good, some are not. I will see once I read them in 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMill Town Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e is my first real attempt to write about and remember my childhood. The form of a sonnet felt like just enough lines of poetry to document what I recall about the mill town I was born and spent much of my childhood in. \u003cem\u003eMill Town Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e is my best effort to remember the friends, family, streets, apartment buildings, smells, and sounds of Woonsocket, Rhode Island in the 1980s.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jamison Odone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJamison Odone is an author, illustrator, and professor of illustration at Frostburg State University in Western Maryland. His most recent publications have been the graphic novels, \u003cem\u003eMy First Pandemic\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Man In The Painter’s Room\u003c\/em\u003e (Black Panel Press). \u003cem\u003eMill Town Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottlecap Press) is his first published book of poetry.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf Jamison gets the good fortune to live to be an old man—you will find him sitting in the woods, by a stream somewhere quiet, scribbling down poems and drawings in his notebook, and he will be happy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOdone lives in Maryland with his wife and four sons. He loves them all dearly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jamison Odone","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":43692201312571,"sku":"MILLJO","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":43692201345339,"sku":"MILLJOe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/millfront.png?v=1697402258","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/milljo","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}