{"product_id":"slownb","title":"Slow Devotion Slash Open, by Nico Bryan","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 20 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\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSlow Devotion Slash Open\u003c\/em\u003e is a 21st-century software update on Gertrude Stein’s \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e. Devotionally capturing all of the joy and play of Stein’s text while remaining true to her own voice, Nico Bryan has created a unique capsule within this short book: “there is no middle \/ but at the center \/ it is lamentable, curious even.” \u003cem\u003eSlow Devotion Slash Open\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines the modernist experiment in language in a way that speaks to our current concerns—concerns over thinking, eating, moral and political positions, and the situation of always being saddled in too much language.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Ben Fama, author of \u003cem\u003eIf I Close My Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeaning: does it exist even when we intend for it not to? Can meaning be derived from language as experimentational material? As Gertrude Stein says in \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e, “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” How can an absurdist text written to be devoid of meaning give the reader such a blatant and direct platitude? \u003cem\u003eSlow Devotion Slash Open\u003c\/em\u003e engages the space these questions open up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlow Devotion Slash Open\u003c\/em\u003e, Nico Bryan’s debut chapbook, carries on this conversation with Stein using text from \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e to construct meaning. As the poems progress, so does Bryan’s escalations in language, moving from direct play with source material to using the Cubist methodology to construct original poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe scholar Marjorie Perloff described \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e in an essay as a work that, “does not give us an image, however fractured, of a carafe on a table; rather. she forces us to reconsider how language actually constructs the world we know.” And this is the gesture with which Nico Bryan built each poem in her own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNico Bryan is a writer and poet from sun-shiny Florida currently residing in New York City. Her most recent work has been anthologized and featured in \u003cem\u003eFifth Wheel Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIterant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBullshit Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBurrow Press\u003c\/em\u003e. Sometimes she curates and hosts poetry readings for Club Wonder at Mood Ring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nico Bryan","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47122315739451,"sku":"SLOWNB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47122315772219,"sku":"SLOWNBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/devotionfront.png?v=1697315888","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/slownb","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}