{"product_id":"the-other-altar-9781885635914","title":"The Other Altar","description":"Nicholas Gulig's third collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Altar\u003c\/i\u003e, unearths a landscape where the experience of loss is both local and global, personal and political, here and far away. The speaker of these poems wanders in a world illumined at every turn by ghosts whose shape and form he hopes to language in a litany of books, one inside the other. Haunting these pages are the specter of a dead father and the racial violence of a specifically American time and place. Against this backdrop of abiding heartache, Gulig turns to those he loves and to whom he feels indebted--his wife and children, his friends, and to the ghosts of other writers, his literary ancestors--trusting that a language rooted beyond the borders of our collective isolation, a poetry formed upon the altar of other people, might guide the self in the direction of a reenchanted, less solitary experience of creation. \u003ci\u003eThe Other Altar\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that struggles on every page to remind the reader that grief and grace are intertwined, that liberation is a path we walk together, hand in hand and heart to heart, a place we speak into existence when the distance between word and world dissolves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Gulig\u003c\/b\u003e is a Thai-American poet from Eau Claire and the 2023-24 Wisconsin Poet Laureate. The author of \u003ci\u003eNorth of Order \u003c\/i\u003e(YesYes Books) and \u003ci\u003eOrient\u003c\/i\u003e (CSU Poetry Center), he is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and lives in Fort Atkinson with his wife and two daughters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911035490578,"sku":"9781885635914","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_79b8700f-0026-49db-a363-96b9e6c9898a.jpg?v=1738725966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-other-altar-9781885635914","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}