{"product_id":"next-door-by-vince-montague","title":"Next Door, by Vince Montague","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 28 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 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\" 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\u003eNext Door\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of experimental prose poems based on walking and dreaming about the private worlds and the public faces of coexisting in tight communities, yet distanced and separate as if living on detached planets. Each poem in \u003cem\u003eNext Door\u003c\/em\u003e has a mailing address rather than a title, a location rather than a name. Each poem is a fragment, a glance inside a window, a conversation overheard on a sidewalk, a flight into the imagination of what we call “community.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis body of work created a space for me to work with a poetic form I was familiar with: the paragraph. I am a walker by habit, a writer by vocation. The two strains in my life combine during evening and morning hikes. During the height of the pandemic, the world stayed at home, sheltering in place. I think of the paragraph prose poems in this collection as squared forms much like the boxes we inhabit inside our apartments and within our homes, huddled spaces where we learn to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVince Montague is a writer and artist living in Northern California. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCracked Pot\u003c\/em\u003e (Latah Books 2023), a memoir of grief, ceramics and creativity. His poetry and prose has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Florida Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreen Mountain Review\u003c\/em\u003e and many others. His sculptural and functional work in ceramics has been exhibited in juried exhibitions, galleries, and can be found in many private collections. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543249469618,"sku":"NEXTVM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543249502386,"sku":"NEXTVMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/NextDoorfront.png?v=1780354465","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/next-door-by-vince-montague","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}