{"product_id":"physmo","title":"physics of weight: collected poems, by Maureen O'Leary","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, 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\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ephysics of weight: collected poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Maureen O’Leary claims connections to the natural world, folklore, and domestic life in her explorations of motherhood, religion, romantic love, and the feminine Divine. In these poems, mothers delight in their fierce and dangerous daughters. Mythological women unapologetically claim their own destructive strength. Lovers consume one another in tectonic passions. Some poems mourn the transitions of the heart over time, while others rejoice in the intensity of feelings that are a long love’s result. Tame suburban landscapes remember their wilder Pleistocene pasts, while marshlands teeming with wildlife evoke visceral reminders that death is an imminent constant.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is an understanding in \u003cem\u003ephysics of weight: collected poems\u003c\/em\u003e of the wildness present in the human heart; a wildness perhaps best met by the ancient world, both in nature and in old stories. The poems in this collection are as personal as they are political, breaking sex and rage into visceral snapshots of feminine experience. The collection closely observes details of nature and the body, celebrating with vicious delight each poem’s subversive claims to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaureen O’Leary lives in California. Her poetry, short stories, and essays appear in \u003cem\u003eBourbon Penn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Esopus Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReckon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOcculum Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlame Tree Press' Alternate History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePenumbric Speculative Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSundog Literary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSycamore Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNightmare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSequestrum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRoi Faineant Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBarren Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTahoma Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEllipsis Zine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChthonic Matter\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSierra Nevada Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a graduate of Ashland MFA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maureen O'Leary","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47491374612795,"sku":"PHYSMO","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47491374645563,"sku":"PHYSMOe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/physicsfront.png?v=1702327282","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/physmo","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}