{"product_id":"zero-sum-by-katherine-fallon","title":"Zero Sum, by Katherine Fallon","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 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;\" 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\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eZero Sum\u003c\/em\u003e, a woman leaves behind an urban existence to enter a world marked by grief, the ethics of animal husbandry, and land stewardship while tending to a farm in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeartbreak, mediations on land, natural death, and the responsibilities of slaughter permeate this collection. Sparse poems are home to cutting, unexpected turns fluctuating between desire and outside influence: observing a spider web becomes a lesson in atheism and the will to survive; a clothing line of drying diapers calls to mind the meat processing plant where a befriended cow was slaughtered and skinned; a tragic local death recalls the violence of city living; birds themselves become injury. The poems compress the mess of life into neatly formed and staggeringly crafted revelations on lost love, the taking of life, and finding redemption through a life lived close to the ground. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book will leave you too with blood marked hands, and within that, Fallon offers us an opportunity to reckon with a solitude that is not at all solitude: when the flora and fauna and soil gives to us, we may find that we are in good company. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKatherine Fallon is the author of the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eThe Book on Fractures\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2022), \u003cem\u003eDemoted Planet\u003c\/em\u003e (Headmistress Press, 2021) and \u003cem\u003eThe Toothmakers’ Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018). She is Poetry Editor at \u003cem\u003eMAYDAY\u003c\/em\u003e and reads for \u003cem\u003e[PANK]\u003c\/em\u003e. Her poems and fiction have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJuked\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMeridian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNimrod\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. She was a finalist for the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Awards, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Best of the Net. She claimed her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at Georgia Southern University. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543237410994,"sku":"ZEROKF","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543237443762,"sku":"ZEROKFe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/zerofront.png?v=1780354341","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/zero-sum-by-katherine-fallon","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}