{"product_id":"hosts-and-guests-poems-paperback","title":"Hosts and Guests: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNate Klug\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a seduction by way of small astonishments\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNate Klug has been hailed by the \u003ci\u003eThreepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e as a poet who is \"an original in Eliot's sense of the word.\" In \u003ci\u003eHosts and Guests\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eHosts and Guests\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNate Klug\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eAnyone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRude Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, a modern translation of Virgil's \u003ci\u003eEclogues.\u003c\/i\u003e His poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. A Congregational minister, he lives in Albany, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759927951648,"sku":"9780691203539","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/14bc15eb3c67aac8d7f3acf2c09f27ec.webp?v=1780166376","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hosts-and-guests-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}