{"product_id":"mysenb","title":"Myself Am Ever Mine Own Counterfeit, by Noah Berlatsky","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMichelangelo’s sonnets are often an exercise in anti confession; the poet pledges that he does not love where he does, or pledges to love when he doesn’t. He laments being misunderstood even as he virtually begs for misunderstanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eTranslation also involves a confusion or obfuscation of identity, and these translations perhaps more than most, since the author does not read Italian. The poems here were mostly composed by referencing Google Translate, J.A. Symonds’ translations, and then wandering off where rhyme and inclination lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSome of these more or less follow Michelangelo’s meaning; some make the subtext less sub; some make the melodrama more drama; some argue with the originals or deliberately contradict them; all serve as a way to imagine oneself into the rhetoric and person of a great artist creating great art. These are thundering, impassioned, duplicitous sonnets that speak for us all—or, maybe, for someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNoah Berlatsky (he\/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His full-length collections are \u003cem\u003eNot Akhmatova\u003c\/em\u003e (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024), \u003cem\u003eGnarly Thumbs\u003c\/em\u003e (Anxiety Press, 2025), \u003cem\u003eMeaning Is Embarrassing\u003c\/em\u003e (Ranger, 2025) and \u003cem\u003eBrevity\u003c\/em\u003e (Nun Prophet, 2025).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noah Berlatsky","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50432330203451,"sku":"MYSENB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50432330236219,"sku":"MYSENBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/counterfeitfront.png?v=1752513256","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/mysenb","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}