{"product_id":"lipstickless-mania-a-ritual-for-no-one-by-ami-j-sanghvi","title":"Lipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual For No One, by Ami J. Sanghvi","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\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\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSeparately, the varying, clashing fragments of this book falter. Together, they become the long overdue birth of the author as a marvelous freak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAn experiment in deconstruction and thematic collaging of previously rejected pieces, unpolished drafts, bits from a priorly abandoned book of hours, and raw immediacies, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual for No One\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to explore the ways in which the author’s life simultaneously occurs on and across multiple planes: the mental, the spiritual, the physical, the psychological, and the metaphysical, in addition to the artistic and the sociopolitical. It is also a celebration of newfound, passionate, queer love and a coming into non-binary gender and self — even in the midst of overwhelming anguish and trauma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eRegarding language, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual for No One\u003c\/em\u003e reflects the complicated position of the image\/text\/visual poet in a performance space, where what is spoken is all that is known. It tests the ability of an image\/text mini-collection to manifest in a variety of ways — such that it is next to impossible to read it in an entirely identical manner more than once, and individual readers will always have unique interpretations of its natural movement. As a result, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania\u003c\/em\u003e perpetually folds into itself in order to ensure the intention of the image\/text poet does not wither in the face of vocal expectation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAn exploration of gender, queer joy, religion, and the boundless intersections between heritage, media, marginalization, trauma, alternative art, and deeply-rooted awareness of the suffering soul, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual for No One\u003c\/em\u003e is an ancient punk prayer of both embodiment and disembodiment: an anti-capitalist conjuration born of “being” rather than “doing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAmi J. Sanghvi (he\/they) is a non-binary, Indian-American, queer author, artist, designer, boxer, Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, and recent graduate from the California Institute of the Arts Creative Writing M.F.A. program (concentration: image\/text). He is a fiction editor for \u003cem\u003eDecolonial Passage\u003c\/em\u003e, poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eWrongdoing Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, staff writer for \u003cem\u003eChaotic Merge\u003c\/em\u003e, and photographer for \u003cem\u003eAsianZine\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the co-founder and co-editor of Gutslut Press. His work has recently appeared in \u003cem\u003eSo It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInverted Syntax\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHumana Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI Hope You’ll Still Love Me: A South Asian LGBTQIA+ Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMasalazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZindabad Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and several other publications and exhibitions. He was also a featured author for LUPERCALIApress's \u003cem\u003eVULCANALIA '21\u003c\/em\u003e anthology. He is the winner of Really Serious Literature's Beefy Chapbook Potato-Rito Remote Residency To-Go Contest XXL, with publication of his chapbook, \u003cem\u003eBaby Wraith Burrito Bones\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming in 2022. Additionally, his chapbook, \u003cem\u003e[in]transpiring\u003c\/em\u003e, was published with swallow::tale press in November 2021, while his chapbook, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Baby Vamp: Letters to John Milton\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Gutslut Press in December 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543208673458,"sku":"LIPSAS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543208706226,"sku":"LIPSASe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/lipsticklessfront.png?v=1780354033","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/lipstickless-mania-a-ritual-for-no-one-by-ami-j-sanghvi","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}