{"product_id":"monsjc","title":"Monsoons, by Jaye Chen","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-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMonsoons\u003c\/em\u003e, history becomes a girl. Two sisters fall in love during a war at sea: their incessant arguing rewrites the very history of lyric poetry into one tongue-tied love song. Here we do things our way: we macerate Milton’s form and let Eliot’s meter bleed out, we lace the epic verse of Gilgamesh and H.D with indie rock songs like Car Seat Headrest and Caroline Polachek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMonsoons is excerpted from \u003cem\u003eHomily\u003c\/em\u003e, a longform epic poem that recalls Anne Carson’s \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/em\u003e, Alice Notley’s \u003cem\u003eDescent of Alette\u003c\/em\u003e, and the book-length projects of Tommy Pico. Like the fleeting radio you’d overhear from a fast car, the pulsing fragments of Monsoons rewind and erase the history of war and girlhood. Together, the sisters make a world out of shrapnel and sea-things, traversing genres and styles, theory and traditions, poetry and prose, coming out of history and coming home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaugh at the sisters. Coddle their delusions. Let \u003cem\u003eMonsoons\u003c\/em\u003e be a prophecy. Do a line from it. Read it to your girlfriend. Take it to bed. Let it stay the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJaye Chen was born and raised in Suzhou, China. They won the Academy of American Poets's Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize for their manuscript in progress, \u003cem\u003eHomily\u003c\/em\u003e. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003epoets.org\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eno, dear\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eScreen Slate\u003c\/em\u003e. They live in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaye Chen","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49597633167675,"sku":"MONSJC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49597633200443,"sku":"MONSJCe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/monsoonsfront.png?v=1729552339","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/monsjc","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}