{"product_id":"thiscs","title":"This is Not a Poem, by Crystal Stone","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 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\" 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\u003eThis is Not a Poem\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of aging, memory, and identity inspired by Stone’s professional work at a nursing home in the height of the pandemic. From her work with older dementia patients in the last days of their lives, she realized we know so much that we don’t realize what we’ve forgotten. These poems reflect the ways that memory changes as we age and experience new emotionally-charged events: traumatic, joyful or otherwise emotionally memorable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere, Stone constructs and deconstructs narratives in a way that reflects the aging process. The poems demonstrate how shifts in our memory also impacts our identity—both how we see ourselves and how we relate to others. The poems model, in some ways, the brain leaps in dementia patients as the narratives in the poems unfold. Sometimes the brain mismatches details; sometimes the whole story is present for a moment. As time progresses, the gaps get bigger. Sometimes they become non-verbal like words without vowels, without consonants. \u003cem\u003eThis is Not a Poem\u003c\/em\u003e will start with a personal poem about a childhood memory and progress to reflect the way that memory gets stunted, shifted, changed as it’s remembered, accessed, and infused with new memories as the years go by while showing fragments of the relationship the author developed with a dementia patient in her work at a nursing home in the height of the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCrystal Stone is author of four collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eKnock-Off Monarch\u003c\/em\u003e (Dawn Valley 2018), \u003cem\u003eAll the Places I Wish I Died\u003c\/em\u003e (CLASH 2021), \u003cem\u003eGym Bras\u003c\/em\u003e (Really Serious Literature 2021), and \u003cem\u003eCivic Duty\u003c\/em\u003e (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press 2022). Her poems have been published in numerous national and international poetry journals including \u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalamander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003epoetry Daily\u003c\/em\u003e and many others. She received her MFA from Iowa State University, where she gave a TEDx talk entitled 'The Transformative Power of Poetry.' You can find more of her publications at her website www.crystalbstone.com. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crystal Stone","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44541423911227,"sku":"THISCS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44541423943995,"sku":"THISCSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/tinap2front.png?v=1679344599","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/thiscs","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}