{"product_id":"sayyhps","title":"Say Yes, Anpu, by Hugo Placer-Sanchez","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 20 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\u003eSay Yes, Anpu\u003c\/em\u003e is a devotional cycle of poems rooted in a contemporary reimagining of Egyptian funerary theology, centering the god Anubis not as a remote mythological symbol, but as an embodied and affective presence within the grief-soaked fabric of modern life. Set untraditionally in liminal spaces like gas stations, supermarket aisles, and empty suburban roads, the chapbook navigates a ritualized intimacy between god and mourner, collapsing sacred distance and reclaiming death as a site of tenderness and revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems are arranged with ceremonial intentionality, mirroring the movement of a funerary procession: invocation, descent, encounter, offering, aftermath. They draw from a syncretic theological lens: blending ancient Egyptian theologies of the heart and the afterlife with modern mysticism and psychopompic poetics. In doing so, the work discards the sterility of death-as-abstraction and instead reclaims grief, ritual, and divine embodiment as necessary acts of resistance and belonging. \u003cem\u003eSay Yes, Anpu\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader not to explain or interpret divinity, but to meet it in all its trembling and unfinished qualities and in the quiet wreckage we carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“The sense of chaos created by [Hugo’s] diction and arrangement is the same as the mood of a devotee. He probes and strikes darkness.” —Wesley Huang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHugo Placer-Sanchez is a writer and student based in St. Louis. His poetry explores mythology and modern surrealism. He is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eKinpaurak\u003c\/em\u003e, a literary magazine dedicated to the strange, the esoteric, and the revelatory. His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eStreetLit Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003edadakuku\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hugo Placer-Sanchez","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50245281874235,"sku":"SAYYHPS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50245281907003,"sku":"SAYYHPSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/yesfront.png?v=1745628597","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/sayyhps","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}