{"product_id":"hosts-and-guests-poems-9780691203539","title":"Hosts and Guests: Poems","description":"\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478293418258,"sku":"9780691203539","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7afa591d-e3db-4aca-8918-af425a074a4d.jpg?v=1730294660","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hosts-and-guests-poems-9780691203539","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}