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 Pok-n 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 ques
