{"product_id":"the-alphabet-of-aliens-9781774152010","title":"The Alphabet of Aliens","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dreamlike, eerily atmospheric prose poems in this collection interrogate margins and melt points of migrancy. Intensely personal, funny, enchanting, and fantastical, it is at once an ambitious autobiography and a dream book, a diary and a field guide. Here, the hybridity of the form serves both as a device of subversion and as an ocular pointing at space and stars, forests and rivers, rupture and belonging. Here wounds multiply in a potato. The soul can be photographed. A mirror hides in a discarded baguette. A phantomlike empty coat in Bardo becomes a bloated pumpkin. The mood is playful, the tone deliberately whimsical, giving voice to discourses on passage, arrival and the rootlessness of migrant diasporas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabyasachi (Sachi) Nag is the author of \u003ci\u003eHands Like Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction; Ronsdale Press, 2023) and three previous collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eUncharted\u003c\/i\u003e (Mansfield Press, 2021). His work has been published in numerous journals worldwide. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of British Columbia and is an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Simon Fraser University, and Humber School for Writers. He is the managing editor at \u003ci\u003eArtisanal Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, an online journal that explores books, lit craft, and theory. When he's not reading or teaching Creative Writing, he enjoys going paddling with his wife and son in the Great Lakes near Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890634883346,"sku":"9781774152010","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95c6d1cd-c5cd-4496-8a28-7ec955ff3f85.jpg?v=1768312370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-alphabet-of-aliens-9781774152010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}