{"product_id":"how-will-the-heart-endure","title":"How Will the Heart Endure?","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Catlin\u003c\/strong\u003e is retired from his unchosen profession as a barman. He has been publishing for parts of six decades in little, minuscule, not so little, literary, and university publications. Some of those would include \u003cem\u003eThe Wormwood Review, The Wisconsin Review, Tray Full of Lab Rats, Wordsworth’s Socks, The Literary Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSlipstream.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHis chapbook, \u003cem\u003eBlue Velvet,\u003c\/em\u003e won the Slipstream Chapbook Contest in 2017. One of his full-length books, \u003cem\u003eLast Man Standing\u003c\/em\u003e from Lummox Press, details his life and times walking to the bus stop, busing to work and to his former job. \u003cem\u003eLast Man Standing\u003c\/em\u003e is a continuation of \u003cem\u003eThe Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre.\u003c\/em\u003e A transitional work, \u003cem\u003eAlien Nation\u003c\/em\u003e from March Street Press, combines four thematically-related chapbooks in one volume, paving the way from bar world, to social criticism, to his noir movie sequence, \u003cem\u003eHollyweird.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHis latest volume of that work,\u003cem\u003e Exterminating Angels,\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Kelsay Books. A triptych \u003cem\u003eAmerican Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e includes three volumes of art related ekphrastic poems, two of which were published by Future Cycle Press and the third by Dos Madres. His ongoing current project is \u003cem\u003eMemories,\u003c\/em\u003e an epic in fragments that began during the Covid lockdown and continues to this day. Volume one was published by Alien Buddha as \u003cem\u003eMemories,\u003c\/em\u003e and volume two, as \u003cem\u003eMemories Too,\u003c\/em\u003e by Dos Madres. A collection of “real stories,” reflections of a personal nature, \u003cem\u003eListening to the Moonlight Sonata During a Mohs Procedure to Remove a Skin Cancer,\u003c\/em\u003e is scheduled for late 2023 by Impspired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor his sins, he is the poetry and review editor of misfitmagazine.net, an online poetry journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 115 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (August 3, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176455680158,"sku":"kxt1787286883205","price":16.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/how-will-the-heart-endure_1.jpg?v=1787286888","url":"https:\/\/urbanwearstore.shop\/products\/how-will-the-heart-endure","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}