Hosts and Guests av Nate Klug

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<p><b>An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by <i>Colorado Review</i> as ¿a seduction by way of small astonishments¿</b><br><br>Nate Klug has been hailed by the <i>Threepenny Review</i> as a poet who is ¿an original in Eliot¿s sense of the word.¿ In <i>Hosts and Guests</i>, 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¿n Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude, and past and present. <i>Hosts and Guests</i> 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 ques