Cover art: "Present" by andrea bird, encaustic collage, 2010; visit andreabird.com.

Alloy
Available now from Mayapple Press

"With a keen and unflinching eye, Jan Bottiglieri’s Alloy recovers personal history and memory from the most unexpected places: in the daily acts of ironing a father’s handkerchief or baking a mother’s kolacky; in the worlds of fairy tale, myth, and aliens; and in the mundane—a button, a butterfly, a laser machine, a broken lawn mower. Every poem in this book could be an elegy or a love poem to life itself—for what else is life if not an amalgam of loves and losses, of dreams and waking, of remembrance and forgetting?"
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Where Gravity Pools the Sugar
Available now from Finishing Line Press 

"Jan Bottiglieri’s poems read as intimate conversations, frequently including dialogue or direct address to the reader, but always shot through with revelatory images and turns...Their music, 'taut / string strung,' is often elegiac, but in the end Where Gravity Pools the Sugar celebrates the cycle of life and the uncanny moments that serve themselves up to all of us."
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