{"product_id":"defiant-devotion-by-dolo-diaz","title":"Defiant Devotion, by Dolo Diaz","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" 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\"\u003eThese poems thread memory, faith, and familial tension, moving fluidly between reverence and rebellion. They capture the absurdities and emotional truths of religious life, embracing its contradictions: the tenderness of childhood ritual, the weight of unspoken judgment, and the echo of formative beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDolo Diaz wrote this series in a single three-hour stretch, as if possessed by memory. Committing them to the page became a form of reckoning—and perhaps a way to offer poetic company to others on their own spiritual paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eInfused with humor, shame, longing, and defiance, the poems travel from childhood into adulthood. From the innocent tyranny of making a younger sister kneel to pray, to the compulsion of kissing a Sacred Heart plaster bust, to the irony of warning the priest not to mention Jesus at her church wedding, these pieces are both specific and universal. \u003cem\u003eDefiant Devotion\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to the strange, enduring power of belief and the stories we carry long after belief itself has faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDolo Diaz is a poet and scientist whose work explores the intersection of the physical and emotional.  She is originally from Spain and lives in Palo Alto, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eRight Hand Pointing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStar*Line\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBook of Matches\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMoss Puppy Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLast Stanza Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543307206834,"sku":"DEFIDD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543307239602,"sku":"DEFIDDe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/defiantfront.png?v=1780355308","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/defiant-devotion-by-dolo-diaz","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}