{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691203539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Nate Klug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36640189644956,"sku":"9780691203539","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_572f6d9e-22ae-488a-8f60-6a7d4df8e110.jpg?v=1603851608","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hosts-and-guests-poems-9780691203539","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}