Hosts and Guests: Poems
By Nate Klug
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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 Pokémon 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 questioning. As Booklist 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.”
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Hosts and Guests - Nate Klug
1.
MATINEE, END OF AUGUST
The several dark
where it was safe to feel
still wearing off our faces,
we stumble out
with packs of strangers
like red-eye passengers
exiting a jet,
crumbs and random warmths
scattered among the recliner seats.
The future, like a memory,
seeps back slowly:
which car, which color-coded floor …
It ought to have rained.
We’d wanted not to hurry.
But every door
to the reassembling world
knows we’re there already,
and slides open.
GHOST AT THE HY-VEE
I’d seen him just two months before—
his brother’s service, condolences
over orange juice— but when I shook Dan’s hand
between aisles, my lips spoke Jack.
Or Jack spoke Jack
through me, slipping back
by vowel rhyme, and scrambling to remain
among the glint and friction of the jumbo carts,
midday’s automatic produce mists. Cheeks drained,
then flushed, believing too much at once
to speak, I glanced toward Dan, his eyes
fixed below on the ceiling fans’ reflections—
each circulating blade leaking up
through floor varnish. Returned to himself,
he laughed it off, clapping my back like a man,
like a Dan would, but more softly than that.
CHRISTMAS EVE, I-80, 10 P.M.
Tipped and stranded and sheathed in snow,
adjacent the rumble strip
a semi-trailer slumbers through
its own