{"product_id":"the-other-altar-paperback","title":"The Other Altar - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Gulig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 109\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52616858534170,"sku":"9781885635914","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/5604\/6618\/files\/sq5BNunjFA9781885635914.webp?v=1785467886","url":"https:\/\/j-s-five-and-dime.myshopify.com\/products\/the-other-altar-paperback","provider":"J \u0026 S Five and Dime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}