{"product_id":"horror-movie-dream-diner-by-cara-peterhansel","title":"Horror Movie Dream Diner, by Cara Peterhansel","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-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Cara Peterhansel’s exquisite \u003cem\u003eHorror Movie Dream Diner\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t interested in jump scares. It charts quieter and more complex horrors, like the precariousness of human existence: “The mountains and I are both made of tinder, \/ and I stand quietly on the metaphor \/ I’m sick of making.” The speakers in these poems (some, delightfully, are horror movie heroines) reclaim center stage (“In this forest house, alone, my body runs the lights”), and address the full range of human emotions. There are tiny triumphs (“I remember shaking an entire can of baby powder \/ onto my parents’ bathroom tile \/\/ so I could feel like a small god in a pink dress”) alongside some small stabs at consolation: “I try to convince myself that \/ every grain of matter \/\/ has something like warm rain in it.””\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Matthea Harvey, author of \u003cem\u003eIf the Tabloids Are True What are You?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHorror Movie Dream Diner\u003c\/em\u003e is sculpted with a hard won balance. Acceptance follows a roaring resistance to what threatens us, and in that stream of creativity we are reminded of how many ways there are to see what lies before us. These are tender offerings to the reader to visit the most vulnerable parts of herself. Peterhansel steps out delicately to reveal her frailties, her humanness, with a complexity that shines brightly on what life requires of us. We must go into our selves as deeply as possible, and learn how to be with the knowing so we can live.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Afaa M. Weaver, author of \u003cem\u003eA Fire in the Hills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The instant I finished reading the final tercet of \u003cem\u003eHorror Movie Dream Diner\u003c\/em\u003e, I returned to the opening and started again. As when watching the last scenes of a film where everything blooms then bursts into place, I needed to rewind, re-live the design pulsing through each revelation, reverberation and turn. Cara Peterhansel’s gorgeous poems of tenderness and disquiet find their ending and beginning here: “I…write, erase. Sit with \/ lungs full \/ of cardinals.” From “smoke shapes” to “the cornflower casket \/ and her sewn mouth,” from “the deep marrow of me” to the “shallows of soultide solitude,” yearnings and threats haunt every beauty, intimacy and threshold in this thrilling collection.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—R.A. Villanueva, author of \u003cem\u003eReliquaria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCara Peterhansel (she\/her) is a queer poet living in Western Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work explores the intersections of chronic illness, disability, neurodivergence, and queer intimacy. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eStone of Madness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKissing Dynamite\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePidgeonholes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDefunkt Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and the anthology \u003cem\u003eA Body You Talk To: An Anthology on Contemporary Disability\u003c\/em\u003e (Sundress Publications, 2023). She can be found online at carapeterhansel.com and @CPeterhansel on twitter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543238164658,"sku":"HORRCP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543238197426,"sku":"HORRCPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/hmdd6front.png?v=1780354346","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/horror-movie-dream-diner-by-cara-peterhansel","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}