A Hotel in Belgium [Paperback]

A Hotel in Belgium explores the emotional space between loyalty and skepticism. Here is a psyche preoccupied with both doubt and dread, but also a desire to surrender itself to the risks of love and trust. These smart, beautiful poemsoften complicating their lyricism with formal rigor and adaptations of found textsinvestigate the delicacy of human relationships and the hopeful relentlessness with which we pursue them. The voice of these poems is tender, imaginative and sometimes wry, building an urgent narrative of melancholy, self-doubt and the ultimate resilience of the spirit.

These poems investigate the delicacy of human relationships and the hopeful relentlessness with which we pursue them

BRETT FLETCHER LAUER is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and poetry editor of A Public Space. He lives in Brooklyn.