{"product_id":"yellcme","title":"Yellow Rose Effigy, by cm ellis","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 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\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYellow Rose Effigy\u003c\/em\u003e, cm ellis’ debut chapbook, grief waltzes to the same song as seduction, sticking to the speaker’s heels. Until it picks them up and swings them dizzy. Until they flint, setting fire to all the speaker’s certainties as easily as dry flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this collection sorrow does not let the speaker go to breathe for a moment. The dance is disorienting and infuriating in turn. Is the speaker smiling or grimacing? Singing or crying?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eYellow Rose Effigy\u003c\/em\u003e is a release and an offering of what was made in the dark and burned for light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"... is a quilted bravado of poems that come together like 'tendrils wrapping' \u0026amp; 'barbed ends snagging' your emotions. this book kept me captivated, each poem unfurling a different perspective of image and visual aspect. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Compton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The poems in cm ellis's \u003cem\u003eYellow Rose Effigy\u003c\/em\u003e are 'visions \/\/ of what shadows keep.' ellis’s lines remind us that to cast a shadow (like a spell) requires distance 'twixt light source, silhouetted object, \u0026amp; shadow-screen, a distance that is constantly collapsing and being renegotiated by the speakers of \u003cem\u003eYellow Rose Effigy\u003c\/em\u003e's gorgeous, honeyed lyrics. ellis's uncanny sense of image (fists are black walnuts in one poem, and in another 'pearls […] lantern the night') has the textural variety of muskmelon and the particular freshness of honeydew. It takes a poet, in the most classical sense, to come up from the darkness and bring forth a song; let us be grateful that cm ellis has done this here in this beautiful book, coaxing from the deep earth of grief 'a song of things too dark \/ \u0026amp; soft to hold.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Tom Snarsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecm ellis (Michael C.) is the fiction editor for \u003cem\u003eGhost City Review\u003c\/em\u003e and lives in Texas. Their affair with writing has been wildly inappropriate and deeply embarrassing for all involved. They also really like pistachios. If you’re lookin you can find them on the \u003cem\u003ePoems \u0026amp; Whiskey\u003c\/em\u003e Podcast (it’s in all the places, pretty sure) where they just. keep. talking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"cm ellis","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":49273050104123,"sku":"YELLCME","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":49273050136891,"sku":"YELLCMEe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/yellowfront.png?v=1723440012","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/yellcme","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}