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Sixteen Rabbits by Maryan Nagy Captan

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Winner of the Spring 2022 Host Publications Chapbook Prize

Featuring an introduction by Brittanie Sterner.

Sixteen Rabbits transports us through dream, memory, place and time, by opening portals that exist in the liminal space between two worlds. These meditative journeys spring from a deep nostalgia, and one of the most urgent expressions of longing in Captan’s work is that of the displaced, yearning for home. Through displacement, religious persecution, and trauma, these poems come shimmering forth ‘in full-bodied reverie’ seeking divine wisdom which echoes throughout Sixteen Rabbits like a summons–to see this moment, this place, this life–in all of its enchantment. As Captan writes: ‘reverence, / I am writing with reverence.’


"Meditation in Austin, Texas" from Sixteen Rabbits

Dawn came late, the day
single-hued, your body like mine.
I fish a bee from your coffee,
the doves coo past noon. Here,
the sun sits like a hat, and Mars
is a placeholder for everything round.
A woodpecker scales a live oak;
a second bee mourns the first. At dusk,
I kiss the straight-lined mouths
of geckos and whisper goodnight,
I love you.

Maryan Nagy Captan is a poet, screenwriter, gardener, and birder living in Austin, TX. She is an alumnus of The Michener Center for Writers and the Disquiet International Literary Program.

The Sixteen Rabbits Playlist, curated by Maryan Nagy Captan

 

48 pages

ISBN: 978-1-7376050-1-0
ISBN short: 1-7376050-1-5

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