{"product_id":"wesegk","title":"We Search For God on Mars, by Grace Kwan","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\u003eAstrobiology is the ongoing search for life, and the potential for future life, in our backyard the universe. \u003cem\u003eWe Search For God on Mars\u003c\/em\u003e ritualizes this search in poems about the religion of belonging, in earthly geographies and bodily ones, in cosmic vistas and landscapes of love.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eA migrant narrator explores the phenomenology of memory – prayer and queer love punctuate the poetry the same way salt water and rivers unite and break up its terrains. With poems after C Pam Zhang, King James I, Sara Ahmed, and Isabella Wang, the chapbook inserts itself into spatiotemporal dialogues surrounding queerness, migration, oppression, and the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrace Kwan is a queer Chinese-Malaysian Canadian author and scholar researching capitalist and nationalist mythologies and their relationship with art, stories, and the marginalization of Asian immigrants. Grace’s debut collection of creative nonfiction stories, \u003cem\u003ePrelude: \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, came out from Life Rattle Press in June 2020. Their prose and poetry have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePlenitude Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Capilano Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eantilang.\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRigorous Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Thirlby\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grace Kwan","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556516020295,"sku":"WESEGK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556516053063,"sku":"WESEGKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/marsfront.png?v=1678048625","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/wesegk","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}