{"product_id":"like-wine-or-like-pain-by-francesca-leader","title":"Like Wine or Like Pain, by Francesca Leader","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 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\"\u003eHow does it feel to fall in love while broken? To stumble into an experience both beautiful and painful, exhilarating and terrifying? Do we retreat in order to protect unhealed wounds, or surrender to a transformative–and potentially destructive–emotional force?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems in this sequence are verbal ink sketches, written in moments of intense feeling, that map the psychological journey of falling in love again for the first time in two decades. They reveal a person struggling to savor and grow a new love while still processing the trauma of a failed relationship, roiled with sexual desire and wracked with anxiety. The sequence begins with intense infatuation, passes through the morass of doubt and renegotiation of boundaries, and finally arrives at a mature passion that accepts sorrow while allowing joy to dominate.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLike Wine or Like Pain\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of reconciliation with the emotional complexity of love in a time of healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrancesca Leader is a writer and artist originally from Western Montana. In another life, she earned her Master's degree in Modern Japanese Literature from the Ohio State University in 2006. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eFive South\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJ Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBarren\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFunicular\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWigleaf\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMilk Candy Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Mama\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHooligan\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Her artwork has been featured on the covers of \u003cem\u003eCobra Milk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Adanna Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Harpy Hybrid Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCream Scene Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e, and she regularly contributes commissioned illustrations to \u003cem\u003eFlash Frog\u003c\/em\u003e. She was named the winner of the Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, and has been nominated for various other awards. Learn more about her work at inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543259332786,"sku":"LIKEFL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543259365554,"sku":"LIKEFLe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/winefront.png?v=1780354590","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/like-wine-or-like-pain-by-francesca-leader","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}