{"product_id":"navysb","title":"Navy Brat, by Suzanne Burns","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNavy Brat\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir-in-verse chapbook that inhabits the charged, feral landscapes of military housing. Set in Ewa Beach, Hawaii during the late Cold War years, the book traces a girlhood shaped by temporary neighborhoods and shared yards. These poems move through games, objects, rituals, and small violences with a precise, unsentimental eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAcross its sequence, \u003cem\u003eNavy Brat\u003c\/em\u003e examines how girls learn about power and desire, long before they have language for them, through scratch-and-sniff stickers, dollhouses, abandoned furniture, sea monkeys, and pink plastic treasures ordered from the backs of comic books. The speaker’s voice remains grounded in the child’s perspective, allowing the poems to expose systemic inequities without retrospective moralizing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAt once tender and unsparing, \u003cem\u003eNavy Brat\u003c\/em\u003e offers a collective memory of growing up in spaces designed to be impermanent. The children in these pages build worlds from what is left behind and learn, early on, how easily those worlds can disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSuzanne Burns is a writer whose work spans poetry, fiction, and memoir, often exploring girlhood, desire, power, and the surreal textures of everyday life. She is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eLook at All the Colors Hidden There\u003c\/em\u003e (Galileo Press, 2025), \u003cem\u003eNow It Seems That I Am Not Here at All\u003c\/em\u003e (Tailwinds Press, 2023), \u003cem\u003eBoys\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Hell Press, 2018), and \u003cem\u003eThe Veneration of Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e (Dzanc Books, 2017), among others. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, and her work has been reviewed in \u003cem\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (including a starred review and Top 100 Book of the Year selection), \u003cem\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suzanne Burns","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50904399118651,"sku":"NAVYSB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50904399151419,"sku":"NAVYSBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/navyfront.png?v=1767983162","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/navysb","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}