The Dig and Hotel Fiesta

by Lynn Emanuel

Book Overview

This volume combines two previously published books, The Dig (1992, University of Illinois Press) and Hotel Fiesta (1984, University of Georgia Press). A prose poem has been added as a prologue.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252064208
• ISBN13: 9780252064203
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

the best!

It's always interesting when people either love or hate something, where there's no middle ground. And in art, often people hate things because it doesn't fit their idea of what art is, which is based on that which they've seen before. I can't bear much poetry and love Lynn Emanuel's work for precisely that reason: it's not like anything else. Her voice, her format is her own--sharp, clear, and funny--you laugh because she has hit the mark so perfectly.

well done

Lynn Emmanuel provides poetry not of self indulgence but simply of self in these two collections of poems. Her voice is strong, confident yet avoids the pitfalls of seeing meaning where there is none. That combined with the exacting but rich vocabulary make this collection one of my favorites to read, reread, and recommend to others.

Shaping a world

Lynn Emanuel's work in this combined collection is fresh and daring. It isn't surprising that some readers find it off-putting to encounter an entirely confident voice that doesn't beg a reader's approval but marches on with the keen intellect, humor, sharp and engaging characters and stories and imagery that challenges the old cherry blossoms of verse.

Shaping a world

Lynn Emanuel's work in this combined collection is fresh and daring. It isn't surprising that some readers find it off-putting to encounter an entirely confident voice that doesn't beg a reader's approval but marches on with the keen intellect, humor, sharp and engaging characters and stories. Additionally Emanuel's imagery challenges and re-dresses the old cherry blossoms of verse.

Extremely enjoyable and sophisticated

Emanuel is a terrifically strong writer, one America's best young mainstream poets, and this two-in-one volume holds up to -- and deserves -- close and repeated readings. The people who have given this book sophmoric, thoughtless one-star reviews are probably as pretentious and lacking in subtley as their comments.