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Here are poems of a ruthless lyric precision, of “intelligence/ quickened/ by vulnerability.” Such a vulnerability lies in the fact that, in some languages, the word for “host” and the word for “guest” have the same root, audible in this book’s title. In a postmodern world, host and guest are both “permanently temporary,” and therefore they must depend on each other, across countries, cultures and languages.
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‘How can language / as tainted as this / relieve the living / & revive the dead,’ Alissa Valles wonders in her breakthrough second collection, Hospitium, which is a rarity in contemporary American poetry—a deeply serious, probing and meaningful book of historical questions and metaphysical concerns.
—Edward Hirsch
Here are poems of a ruthless lyric precision, of “intelligence/ quickened/ by vulnerability.” Such a vulnerability lies in the fact that, in some languages, the word for “host” and the word for “guest” have the same root, audible in this book’s title. In a postmodern world, host and guest are both “permanently temporary,” and therefore they must depend on each other, across countries, cultures and languages. The themes of flight, homelessness and care in [Hospitium] play out in great cities (Amsterdam, Warsaw, New York) and on both the global and the personal level. Alissa Valles asks: “How does a guest/ summon up ghosts?” The answer is: by voracious experience, a sensitive ear, wide reading, and a sympathetic heart. In this book she provides an anatomy of our time and our condition.
—Karl Kirchwey
Inhernewcollection,AlissaVallesoffersusagalleryofbrilliantlydefinedsilhouettes,in a world where all, host and guests, are strangers having to deal alone with their destiny, body, and dignity. She manages to bring them together as on a dark train journey that accentuates the accidental in human connections, the absurdity of circumstances. Whether it is a street in Amsterdam, an apartment in New York, or a surgery pavilion in a hospital—they all evoke our anxiety of existence, ancient as much as modern. They go on resonating in our memory long after reading.
—Luljeta Lleshanaku
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- PublisherMadHat, Inc.
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1941196837
- ISBN 13 9781941196830
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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