{"product_id":"utility-location-by-susan-rukeyser","title":"Utility Location, by Susan Rukeyser","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtility Location\u003c\/em\u003e is a multimedia micro memoir, pairing tiny prose-poems with the author’s cell phone snapshots of unrelated street markings. It is a book about being jumbled, out of place, in search of signs. It is about the pull toward darkness and also light, and the many people we become, across a lifetime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusan was struck by the spray-painted utility location markings that appeared throughout her Southern, suburban subdivision around the time of the 2016 election, a time of upheaval in her personal life, too. She went on to take pictures of other messages, on other streets, unconcerned with their meanings. The pictures offered abstract inspiration, a way into her own story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe result is a tough, shorthand, diaristic, imprecise, and contemplative review of a life so far. It is feminist, of course. It gets a little political.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusan Rukeyser now writes and reads in Joshua Tree, California. She wrote the novel \u003cem\u003eNot On Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOnly Dying\u003c\/em\u003e (Twisted Road Publications), and the flash fiction collections \u003cem\u003eSwap\/Meet\u003c\/em\u003e (Space Cowboy Books) and \u003cem\u003eWhatever Feels Like Home\u003c\/em\u003e (above\/ground press). Her short fiction and creative nonfiction appear in many wonderful places, online and in print. Susan published 35 contributors in \u003cem\u003eFeckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e and hosts the Desert Split Open Mic, Joshua Tree’s feminist, queer, and otherwise radical spoken word open mic. www.susanrukeyser.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543237935282,"sku":"UTILSR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543237968050,"sku":"UTILSRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/utility2cardstockfront.png?v=1780354344","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/utility-location-by-susan-rukeyser","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}