{"product_id":"the-corridors-by-brendan-allen","title":"The Corridors, by Brendan Allen","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 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\u003eThe Corridors\u003c\/em\u003e is a single long poem that thinks about how bodies move and occupy space in the interwoven networks of urban architecture and capital—and those networks’ (in)visibility in the definition of labor and leisure. Corridors as metaphor, corridors as form, corridors as the non-spaces behind shiny facades, where the staff scarf their lunch.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Corridors\u003c\/em\u003e connects many nodes of influence: years of public-facing service work, solitary early-pandemic walks through ambiguously-defined public\/private space, an imagining of the hidden transit utilidors beneath Walt Disney World, Georges Perec's \u003cem\u003eSpecies of Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e, Roger Luckhurst's 2019 cultural history of corridors as social architecture, the conveyor belt dread of first-person shooters, and childhood memories of televised global crises observed from the hallways of Midwest hotels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrendan Allen is a poet and educator who takes a lot of walks. He's the developer of the poetry video game CentoQuest, and his work has recently appeared in \u003cem\u003eAlways Crashing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKeith LLC\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eApricity Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eProlit Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. He holds an MFA in poetry from Temple University, where he spent much of the early COVID-19 pandemic touring Philadelphia’s parking lots and writing this chapbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543236198578,"sku":"_CORRBA","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543236231346,"sku":"_CORRBAe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/corridorsfront.png?v=1780354332","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-corridors-by-brendan-allen","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}