{"product_id":"miscmt","title":"Miscast, by Michael Trocchia","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrama, prose, chapbook, 32 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiscast\u003c\/em\u003e gathers three lyrical prose plays that blur the boundaries between theater, poetry, and philosophy. In these surreal and existentially charged works, characters grapple with questions of identity, performance, truth, and the stories people tell about themselves. Whether inhabiting a world where a cellist abandons his art after encountering a mysterious young woman, reflecting on a life spent inhabiting roles that never quite fit, or participating in an absurd audition that unfolds across decades, Trocchia’s characters move across a stage where reality and invention continually exchange masks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWritten in a lyrical prose that mixes wit, melancholy, and wonder, these plays explore what it means to perform a life rather than simply live one. Trocchia draws on theatrical conventions only to dismantle and reimagine them, creating works that, though brief, are at once intimate dramas and meditations on language, artifice, and selfhood. The result is a chapbook that invites readers to consider how we are shaped by the roles we inherit, the fictions we construct, and the elusive parts of life that remain behind the curtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMichael Trocchia’s poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eArion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Black Sun Lit, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eChicago Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Fourteen Hills, New \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOrleans Review, Poetry International, Tarpaulin Sky, UCity \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eReview, \u003c\/em\u003eand elsewhere. He teaches philosophy and works in the library at James Madison University in Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Trocchia","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":67905087832379,"sku":"MISCMT","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":67905087865147,"sku":"MISCMTe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/Miscast2_cover.png?v=1793905041","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/miscmt","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}