UI Press | Lynn Emanuel | The Dig and Hotel Fiesta

The Dig and Hotel Fiesta

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.

"Emanuel's great feat in The Dig, a 1992 National Poetry Series winner, is her display of poems as living relics of an archaeological expedition into memory and human folly. . . . Emanuel has managed to lock a great deal of humanity into this humorous, inspiring, and honest record of a place too quickly forgotten."--Frances McCue, New York Times Book Review

"Emanuel's poems burst with image, metaphor, simile! This figurative language, however, is not excessive, not contrived. Her energy simply overflows. Every line is rich, yet spare. Every word is cogent."--Harriet Zinnes, The Hollins Critic

"Emanuel is a poet of glamorous surfaces; for the most part, she controls her musical and well-crafted line with a magician's dexterity, creating in the bargain striking similes and a passionate, charged syntax."--Diann Blakely Shoaf, The Harvard Review

Lynn Emanuel is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Hotel Fiesta won the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer's Award.

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