{"product_id":"spidda","title":"Spider Rodeo, by Daliah Angelique","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 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\"\u003eCreepy-cute and silly-somber, \u003cem\u003eSpider Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e is a carnivalesque romp through girlhood, weaponizing camp and kitsch to examine trauma, alienation, and gendered violence. Susan Sontag writes that \"to perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater.\" \u003cem\u003eSpider Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e metabolizes repressed feminine rage into a maniacal yet droll performance of Womanhood as rigged game, as perverse glamor, as B-movie horror show rippling with eroticism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems within this collection subvert socially prescribed Good Girl sensibilities. Instead, these poems relish in the grotesque, finding pleasure and queer joy along the edge of transgression in a culture dominated by boring and fangless neoliberal hegemony. Embracing the shadowy impulse to “go feral”, \u003cem\u003eSpider Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e invites you along for an unhinged playdate in the psychic wasteland of late capitalist popular culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch like the imagery conjured up by the title, \u003cem\u003eSpider Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e is a dark feminine ritual of trashy Americana, in equal parts delicate, tender, hilarious, weird, and hypnotic. In an era saturated with loneliness and data, each poem is an unflinching act of confessional, of witnessing, of literary exorcism. Come along and dance!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDaliah Angelique is a Pisces moon lesbian writing about queer womanhood, trauma, and late capitalist dreamscapes. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eGlass: A Journal of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDriftwood Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOyster River Pages\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLammergeier\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGoats Milk Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Calliope Script\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpilt Milk - The Poetry Society of New York\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOff Menu Press\u003c\/em\u003e. She enjoys collecting oddities and kewpie dolls, reading critical theory and tarot cards, cooking, and rollerskating. She lives with her wife and chihuahua in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daliah Angelique","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39621281251399,"sku":"SPIDDA","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39621281284167,"sku":"SPIDDAe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/spiderrodeofront.jpg?v=1678567022","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/spidda","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}