Hosts and Guests: Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691203546)

An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as "a seduction by way of small astonishments"

Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is "an original in Eliot's sense of the word." In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pok mon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the "immiserated quiet" of modern life, love poems and poems of new fatherhood, and studies of a restless, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world, social commentary, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work, "The visual is rendered sonically, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses, to speak the lines, to taste the syllables."

Author: Nate Klug
ISBN-10: 0691203547
ISBN-13: 9780691203546
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 59