Hotel Worthy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941209189)

Check into Hotel Worthy, Valerie Nieman's new book of poems, and you'll never want to leave. There abides in its pages an uncanny past wrought into poems that spring from a memory - from a vast, liturgical acumen - that unites the dead with the living, restores the abandoned, returns the missing. Nieman knows the names of things, how those things piece together, how they sunder; and, while she refuses to lie, her truths are exquisite. This is a startling book. The language - its lyric nuance, its plaintive harmonies, its ceremonial beauty - is unforgettable. In the words of the poet, "Each blow of wood on wood / sets ripples on the water: / deo gratias, deo gratias."Deo gratias indeed - for Hotel Worthy. -Joseph Bathanti, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina

Author: Valerie Nieman
ISBN-10: 1941209181
ISBN-13: 9781941209189
Publisher: Press 53
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2015
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d