{"product_id":"dear-abbey-by-rachel-stempel","title":"Dear Abbey, by Rachel Stempel","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\u003e“Yes, a fragment is a good thing to be.” \u003cem\u003eDear Abbey\u003c\/em\u003e is an open letter to a failed Tinder relationship in which the author struggles, perhaps without resolution, to hold themselves accountable. The book posits a narrative contract through lyric, something of mind and body that challenges the author’s sense of an individualized self. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eExploring how this contract gives meaning to existence through discussion of poetry, film, and music, \u003cem\u003eDear Abbey\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to connect the author to their lost loves through the beatitude of queer community. Fragmented, inconclusive, and at times, outright contradictory, Dear Abbey is, at its core, an experiment in vulnerability, not so much resisting genre categorization but dismissing it in favor of other modes of belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eRachel Stempel is a queer Ukrainian-Jewish poet and PhD student in English literature at SUNY-Binghamton. They are the author of the chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eBEFORE THE DESIRE TO EAT \u003c\/i\u003e(Finishing Line Press, 2022) and \u003ci\u003eInteriors\u003c\/i\u003e (Foundlings Press, forthcoming 2022), and their work has recently appeared in \u003ci\u003ePenn Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Stream Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJet Fuel Review\u003c\/i\u003e. They live in New York with their rabbit, Diego.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543206019250,"sku":"DEARRS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543206052018,"sku":"DEARRSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/dearabbeyfront.png?v=1780354007","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dear-abbey-by-rachel-stempel","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}