{"product_id":"punclp","title":"Punctuated, by LeeAnn Pickrell","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 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\"\u003eLeeAnn Pickrell’s love affair with punctuation began in a tenth-grade English class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePunctuated\u003c\/em\u003e is a playful book of punctuation poems inspired by her years as an editor. Frustrated by the misuse of the semicolon, she wrote a poem to illustrate its correct use. From there she realized the other marks of punctuation had troubled her as well …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn art and photography, images reflect emotions and ideas. These poems explore the idea of a poem as an image. Each poem in this collection is not only about the mark of punctuation; it also looks like the mark of punctuation, so a period looks like a period, a question mark like a question mark … The poems explore the function of the particular mark of punctuation and its metaphorical and visual representation out in the world. Punctuation, or the lack of in poetry, is as essential as the words on the page. This chapbook is her homage to punctuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"LeeAnn Pickrell proves she’s more than a punctuation maven in her chapbook, \u003cem\u003ePunctuated\u003c\/em\u003e, with her inimitable interpretations of the ubiquitous marks. In shape poems brimming with startling connections, she enchants us with epiphanies packed into such little space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Cathryn Shea, author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Matinee\u003c\/em\u003e from Unsolicited Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLeeAnn Pickrell is a poet and freelance editor. Her work has appeared in many journals, most recently in \u003cem\u003eOne Art\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMacQueen’s Quinterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLoud Coffee Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJung Journal: Culture \u0026amp; Psyche\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eCoffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElectica Magazine Best Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Trembling of Finches\u003c\/em\u003e. She has been an editor for almost thirty years. Her book \u003cem\u003eGathering the Pieces of Days: A Year in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025. She lives in Northern California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LeeAnn Pickrell","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":48617070100795,"sku":"PUNCLP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":48617070133563,"sku":"PUNCLPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/punctuatedfront.png?v=1714875086","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/punclp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}