{"product_id":"quarbk","title":"Quarantine Bedroom Pop, by Becca Klaver","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWhere do you go when you can’t go anywhere?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarantine Bedroom Pop\u003c\/em\u003e roams through spaces it was possible to occupy in spring 2020: home, hiking trails, bike paths, social media, and dreamscapes. The 21 sections of this lo-fi poetic sequence tune into the voices and sounds, outer and inner, tangled in the space-time warps of early pandemic lockdown. An “astralvigilant” speaker quests deeper and deeper into silence and invisibility, meeting up with friends and spirit guides in the IRL’s elsewheres: the unconscious and the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThese poems play with paradoxes: desire blooming amidst stagnancy, the mundane crescendoing into the mythic. Defeat reveals plateaus of grace we can never linger too long in, only revisit, and only through fresh loss. The threat of collapse lets music, light, and wine flow; meanwhile, the sky puts on a show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eBecca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eLA Liminal\u003c\/em\u003e (Kore Press), \u003cem\u003eEmpire Wasted\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloof Books), and \u003cem\u003eReady for the World \u003c\/em\u003e(Black Lawrence Press), as well as several chapbooks. As an editor, she co-founded Switchback Books, co-edited the anthology \u003cem\u003eElectric Gurlesque\u003c\/em\u003e (Saturnalia Books), and has created pop-up projects such as Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants. She lives in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches at James Madison University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becca Klaver","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51573129118011,"sku":"QUARBK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51573129150779,"sku":"QUARBKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/qbp_cover.png?v=1787326403","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/quarbk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}