{"product_id":"swalcvidm","title":"Swallow the pit, by Constance von Igel de Mello","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 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 href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwallow the pit\u003c\/em\u003e is interrogating borders. What determines the belonging and the non-belonging, the country lines we dogmatize? And further, down the line, at the end – who determines the line between what it is to live, and what it means to die? \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe collection opens and closes with mediations on grief, walking us through the anxiety of loss in all of its facets, from identity to homeland to language to mother. And in its meandering middle, it teaches us the processes of loss through a lens that mixes anger with understanding, sadness with resignation, happiness with concern. The imperfection of the in-betweenness walks us through geography classes and through visa interviews, through the passage of summer into fall and all the way back to how sound and smell determine memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConstance Mello (she\/her) is a Brazilian writer living in California. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Ilanot Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrave Voices\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLatinx Lit Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Canteen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Bitchin' Kitsch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSonora Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ebullshit lit\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She’s trying hard to turn all the sad things in her life into beautiful things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constance von Igel de Mello","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44124639691067,"sku":"SWALCVIDM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44124639723835,"sku":"SWALCVIDMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/pitfront.png?v=1675975017","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/swalcvidm","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}