{"product_id":"greater-ghost-9781961897106","title":"Greater Ghost","description":"In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eGreater Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a family member, and the specter of police brutality. With a profound awareness of literary tradition, Collier enters into the American canon and dialogues with Black Southern noir--a poem like \"Beloved,\" whose title expresses not only a genuine tenderness in its term of endearment but invokes Morrison, contextualizes this book within the legacy of racial injustice in the U.S., presenting again the prolific losses and disproportionate Black mortality across time, and yet remembers the resilience of love and transformative possibility of self-actualization from inside tragedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGreater Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2024) and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eThe Gleaming of the Blade\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2021 Editors' Selection from Bull City Press. His works have appeared in \u003ci\u003eDecember\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Michigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2022 Porch Prize in Poetry and the 2020 ProForma Contest from \u003ci\u003eGrist Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. More about him and his work can be found at www.christianjcollier.com. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892095586578,"sku":"9781961897106","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_022d277b-b94f-44c9-94cf-411e91aa918d.jpg?v=1738176505","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/greater-ghost-9781961897106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}