{"product_id":"welllp","title":"We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning, by Lee Potts","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning\u003c\/em\u003e, Lee Potts’ second chapbook, seeks to explore the way desires shape our own lives as well as the world we live in. The poems transverse a landscape of human yearning, from personal wishes to the collective dreams that bind all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMany of the poems here happen when a moment of wanting intersects with reality and reveals the beauty and sorrow that ensues. For instance, there is the quiet longing for connection while death waits nearby in “The dust we bring home with us the dust we left behind,” as well as a profound reflection on ambition and legacy in the title poem, “We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection is an invitation to reflect on the ways our desires propel us forward, hold us back, and ultimately shape the course of our time on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Deep, cool, and dark like the walls of a well, opening to mystery like a night-blooming flower, Lee Potts’ poems offer rich accompaniment for the tender, wondering heart. While the images embrace largeness (constellations, continents, the horizon), they delight in attention to smallness: grains of salt in a bowl, sugar on the back of a spoon. A remarkable collection of poems, beautifully and consciously lyric, that leaves the reader both sated and hungry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Han VanderHart, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Pecan Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the way that setting is crucial to works of fiction, the environments in Lee Potts’ \u003cem\u003eWe’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning\u003c\/em\u003e are like blankets flapped over our heads then left to settle their weight on and around us. The nights are quiet and paranoid, the wind is the keeper of family histories that spill out into the day. In every poem, we are asked to wait in the stillness to hear what the earth has chosen to remember. In a world where the land archives the past, Potts demonstrates beautifully how we might or must remember—trembling in the silence, slow in the watching, rapt with awe.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Taylor Byas, author of \u003cem\u003eI Done Clicked My Heels Three Times\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here's a secret: there's simply no poet alive whose attention to detail I trust more than Lee Potts's. \u003cem\u003eWe'll Miss the Stars in the Morning\u003c\/em\u003e is a tremendous work—reading it, I felt like I'd slipped on God's overcoat, and found while rummaging through the pockets elegy, stones, shadows, blood, orchards, and ocean. Potts has done the miracle work of taking the past and rendering it into a spangle of constellations—something huge and beautiful that shows us from where we've come and where we are inevitably going. '...father’s watch \/ is all I’ve given myself \/ for a compass.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Todd Dillard, Author of \u003cem\u003eWays We Vanish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLee Potts (he\/him) is founder and editor of the poetry journal \u003cem\u003eStone Circle Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He returned to writing poetry in 2017 after a 25-year, post-university hiatus. His poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Night Heron Barks\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRust + Moth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhale Road Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUCity Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFirmament\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoist Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePsaltery \u0026amp; Lyre\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. In 2021, his chapbook, \u003cem\u003eAnd Drought Will Follow\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Frosted Fire Press. He lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee Potts","offers":[{"title":"Print Chapbook","offer_id":48209763139899,"sku":"WELLLP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":48209763172667,"sku":"WELLLPe","price":3.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/starsfront.png?v=1712623575","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/welllp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}