{"product_id":"pressured-speech-by-germ-lynn","title":"PRESSURED SPEECH, by germ lynn","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\" 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\u003ePRESSURED SPEECH\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems driving toward the phenomenon of utterance. Both confessional and abject, the chapbook peers into the poet’s experiences navigating a bipolar diagnosis and episodes of psychosis while winding its way through experimental forms and processes to arrive at unexpected, albeit raw, moments of grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe work vacillates between the meditative and the obsessive, rumination and contemplation. Some poems were generated from erasure, troubling the notion of authorship. Using a fountain pen, the poet “blacks out” their diagnosis in the DSM. Using sickly yellow tape, the poet “papers over” the body of text selected from The Yellow Wallpaper. The poem is not written, the poem survives. The poem speaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poet at once embraces experimental forms but quickly abandons them. There is a playfulness that speaks to wild abandon, but there is also a smoky introspection lurking within the text’s reflective passages. The voice behind this work becomes harried, cyclical, urgent. Musical cues are utilized throughout the text suggesting some internal logic, some interior experience that can be sensed but not voiced, at least not coherently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorrowing the title \u003cem\u003ePRESSURED SPEECH\u003c\/em\u003e from the diagnostic and clinical language of psychiatry, the poet reclaims the term for ecstatic speech. The unfettered use of exclamation points, the dizzying devotion, the slurring of words into other words, this book of poetry lives LOUD and places the lived experience of speech on its phenomenological altar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egerm lynn is a writer and cellist from Florida exploring haunted machinery and neuroqueer phenomenology. Their work has been published in the queer short story collection \u003cem\u003eSpaces We Have Known\u003c\/em\u003e and their science fiction chapbook \u003cem\u003eWhat You Call\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Radix Media. Their poetry can be found in \u003cem\u003eButter Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBent Book\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics, and Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Trapart Books).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543223582898,"sku":"PRESGL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543223615666,"sku":"PRESGLe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/germlynnorangetextfront.png?v=1780354213","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/pressured-speech-by-germ-lynn","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}