Hosts and Guests: Poems

Klug, Nate

ISBN 10: 0691203539 / ISBN 13: 9780691203539

Edité par Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020

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A Good copy of number 152 in the "Princeton Series Of Contemporary Poets" Very slight wear to cover. No crease along the length of spine. Slight curl to front cover. Text is clean with no markings. 81 pages. Contents:"Matinee, End of August; Ghost at the Hy-Vee; Christmas Eve, I-80, 10 P.M.; Hosts and Guests; Eye of a Needle; Jubilee; Ourselves; Rev. Valentine Rathbun Meets the Shakers; The Convert (I); Great Blue Heron, Spottord Lake; Lion's Mane Jellyfish; The Outdoor Amphitheater at Ashworth Park; Aconite; Boston Post Road; Water Clocks; Aporia; Jasper County Almanac; Potholes; Impatient Earth; Brood III; "Grace Is Still a Secret"; For Our Anniversary in Early June; The Pokemon Go People; First Lent in California; Spiritual Practices; The Clock of the Long Now; Face to Face; Central Branch; Inchworm at Embarcadero; Late Afternoon on San Pablo Ave.; Three Months; The Proof Cloth; The Convert (II); Courage; Lonely Planet; Notes; Acknowledgments""Summary: 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 "Host 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 Pokémon 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.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hosts and Guests: Poems
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press, Princeton
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691203539
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691203539
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Illustrateur: Brown, Joan
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry
  • Religions

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Synopsis

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 Pokémon 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."

À propos de l?auteur

Nate Klug is the author of the poetry collection Anyone and Rude Woods, a modern translation of Virgil's Eclogues. His poetry has appeared in the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and The Best American Poetry. A Congregational minister, he lives in Albany, California.