{"product_id":"built-around-the-fire-9781622882557","title":"Built Around the Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilt Around the Fire \u003c\/i\u003edelves into notions of place, the enveloping wonder and plight of our environment, and the complexities of rural culture: an examination of hierarchies, conservatism, generational religion, and the perpetuation of patriarchal norms. Such concepts are juxtaposed with a personal narrative: the rise and failure of a relationship, the deafening silence that arrives within any new vacancy, and the eventual need to learn to adapt in order to grow. These two themes--the notion of a midwestern place and its ideologies, and the notion of a failed relationship-- work in tandem to speak for a shared struggle. The small family farm is dying out and the personal relationship dies right alongside it. What remains is a chance at rebirth, change, a looking outward, finally, as much as a looking inward. Though there is brokenness, and pain, there is also hope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e NATHAN LIPPS is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003ethe body as passage \u003c\/i\u003e(Open Palm Print). Born and raised along the rural coast of western Michigan, he currently lives in Ohio where he is a Professor at Central State University. A recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship (Kenyon Review), an Excellence award in Research (SUNY Binghamton), and a Poetry Fellowship (Wichita State University), Nathan's work has been published in the \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets, BOAAT, Cleaver, Colorado Review, EcoThe, North American Review, Third Coast, TYPO, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen F. Austin University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50564546625810,"sku":"9781622882557","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c340b95b-d453-4a3d-a5e4-6c31e559dc84.jpg?v=1731878506","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/built-around-the-fire-9781622882557","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}