{"product_id":"rebel-blonde-by-meghann-boltz","title":"rebel\/blonde, by Meghann Boltz","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde \u003c\/em\u003eis Virginia Woolf's\u003cem\u003e Orlando \u003c\/em\u003eby way of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol. As an exploration into the performativity of gender, it is also an attempt to question the notion of a fixed self. At its core is death, sex, and disappointment. It reverberates with the peroxide hum of existential loneliness; a hymn to a longing that is never satisfied and never goes away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"\u003eMeghann Boltz is a poet living in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of East Anglia and her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eglitterMOB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBad Pony\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLor\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDream Pop\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e is her first chapbook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These poems are tender little punks that speak precisely to how beautiful and terrible living is. Meghann Boltz makes me feel drunk on the world, on its ordinary opulence and excesses. A stunning book!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Sophie Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"The speaker in \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e is the becoming of that which can be imagined, but never apprehended, as concrete as phantasia, the passed-off shapeshifter. Assertive, helpless, powerful: a neon demon whose confessions stream like the traffic down Sunset Blvd. In rebel\/blonde, Meghann Boltz has given deranged pleasure to the task of outlining that which cannot be outlined, that identity which is not one, but a crowd unto itself, deranged as une chanson of pepsi and coke, the \"I\" that cuts a lock of hair from their mother's head straight out of the casket.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Ben Fama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"As in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e mixes a brew of filmstar gossip and what we used to call \"gender confusion\" to magical ends. Meghann Boltz plays that slash mark between \"rebel\" and \"blonde\" like a great conductor or math genius--it twitches, it divides, it clings and cleaves and fractals, bringing together a great chorus of \"I want,\" and diminuendo, a whisper of \"I used to be desperate.\" Not since I encountered the work of Kay Gabriel and Lourdes Figueroa have I been so taken by a poet new to me, nor one as ready and able to take on the stars and the planets.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Kevin Killian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eMeghann Boltz's poems reveal with ease how the smallest puddle reflects all stars. I love this book, it sweeps me away every time I go to it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-CA Conrad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeghann Boltz is a poet and author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eCautionary Tale\u003c\/em\u003e (b l u s h, 2021) and microchap \u003cem\u003eRoleplay\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeachMag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlitterMOB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVoicemail Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShitwonder\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere, and has recently been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eErase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Hell Press, 2020). She received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. You can find her on instagram @meghann__boltz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543196975282,"sku":"REBEMB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543197008050,"sku":"REBEMBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/rebel-blonde_-by-Meghann-Boltz-Bottlecap-Press-1656793938.jpg?v=1780353884","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/rebel-blonde-by-meghann-boltz","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}