{"product_id":"smalmm","title":"SMALL, BLACK BOX, by Mary Rose Manspeaker","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\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\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSMALL, BLACK BOX \u003c\/em\u003eis an attempt to describe the grieving self through language that speaks around the emotional core of experience, and the silences of the places we cannot reach. Do the places of memory—hospitals, TV shows, dreamscapes \u0026amp; hometowns—and the stories we tell in some ways become the self? Can poetry aid us in living outside the limited ways we have to describe our lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe language and form of these poems deconstruct the self even as they construct places it might reside. They resist a narrative experience of identity and grief, examining instead their indefinability and how we live within these spaces regardless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMary Rose Manspeaker was born and raised in West Virginia. They are a 2021 Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and their recent work appears or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTYPO\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGordon Square Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Rose Manspeaker","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39604955545671,"sku":"SMALMM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39604955578439,"sku":"SMALMMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/smallblackboxfront.png?v=1679085397","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/smalmm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}