{"product_id":"new-in-town-by-grant-chemidlin","title":"New in Town, by Grant Chemidlin","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 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\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew in Town\u003c\/em\u003e is a coming out\/post-coming out story told in reverse chronological order. Through vivid language and strange, inventive imagery, the reader travels back to the beginning, experiencing along the way, the joy, love, and pain that comes with queer self-discovery. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy the end, or start, the reader is left to wonder if all of the personal growth they just witnessed was the truth, was the to-be future, and not some sliding doors moment or daydream. As the speaker in the very last line buries his hands in the ground, then walks away, readers should be screaming, \"Wait! Don't go! I have seen all the good that will come from what feels scary.\" \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo many queer people at the beginning of their journeys can't imagine what their happiness could look like, what they could look like. \u003cem\u003eNew in Town\u003c\/em\u003e paints that picture for them, while also letting readers feel the gravity and life-altering consequences of such a crossroads decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrant Chemidlin is a queer poet and currently, an MFA candidate at Antioch University-Los Angeles. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eHe Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This)\u003c\/em\u003e and his second collection, \u003cem\u003eWhat We Lost in the Swamp\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published by Central Avenue Publishing in 2023. He has been a finalist for the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award and the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Recent work has been featured or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIron Horse Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRiver Heron Review\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543215325362,"sku":"NEWIGC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543215358130,"sku":"NEWIGCe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/newintown7front.png?v=1780354132","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/new-in-town-by-grant-chemidlin","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}