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KOMMA SERIES No. 13 :
“Vessel”
by Cat Dossett
// published in 2018
// sale price $1.35
// illustrated diary
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by Cat Dossett // a Pen & Anvil chapbook
Cat Dossett

Cat Dossett has created illustrations for Queen Mob's Tea House, Hoochie Reader, Burn, Clarion, and other publications.

// She can be be found on Twitter as @aboutadaughter.

“think of a place you felt safe.
take yourself there when you are afraid.”

From the Artist's Note: "For a month after a recent break-up, I tried to distract myself by watching movies, mostly ones starring Adam Driver. However, my anxiety makes it difficult for me to concentrate for extended periods of time. My solution was to lock myself in the bathroom and sit in the bathtub for the duration of the movie. That seemed to work. Nonetheless I found myself
multitasking in the tub. I began to draw diary comics to accompany the films. Eventually I stopped watching movies every night, but the comics continued. This chapbook contains a few of them."

Paul Rowe: "Cat Dossett's chapbook Vessel is fantastic. It's like Roz Chast meets Alison Bechdel."
About this chapbook series:

These bite-sized booklets are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting. When you’re done with one, pass it along! Look for them lying around in Boston, Portland, or New York City. When you see one waiting to be read, go ahead and pick it up. Give it a home in your hands for a ten-minute lit snack. Then when you’re finished, leave it behind for the next person to find, in an ATM lobby, on a train station bench, in the coffeeshop, at the pub.

To request a single copy of any chapbook in the series, or a set of copies in bulk quantity so you can pepper them around your neighborhood, just contact the Pen & Anvil Press and we can put a plan together to mail some over to you. You can reach us via the good folks at the Boston Poetry Union, at 139 Mt. Vernon Street, Fitchburg MA 01420. If you don’t have a stamp, feel free to send us an email.