{"product_id":"tisoksb","title":"TISOY, by Kyle Seamus Brosnihan","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTISOY\u003c\/em\u003e, the Tagalog word for mestizo or someone of half-Filipino descent, is Kyle Seamus Brosnihan’s first chapbook of poetry. In an odyssey that takes the reader from Manila to Madrid, Brosnihan investigates how the personal, the historic, the genealogical, and the geographic weave together. Much like the word tisoy, each poem has a tension within, exploring dualities such as the past and present, isolation and belonging, the familiar and the foreign.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese poems show the contradictions of identity and the elusiveness of origins; always searching, always lacking, they stream down the page in a centered form that forgoes punctuation and grammar to fix fleeting images into poetic experiences. The poems shimmer in the middle of the page like little islands of poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKyle Seamus Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet and playwright. Raised in Nebraska, he now lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2022. His poetry has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Margins\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eApogee\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Days Press\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kyle Seamus Brosnihan","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44841983836475,"sku":"TISOKSB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44841983869243,"sku":"TISOKSBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/TISOYfront.png?v=1697402280","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/tisoksb","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}