About the Author
Angela Ball is professor of English at the University of Southern
Mississippi, where she directs the Center for Writers. She is the
author of five previous poetry collections: Kneeling Between Parked
Cars, The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits, Posses
Reviews
"Ball gives her reader a world as complex as its characters, as
challenging as the dichotomies humans create. Ball brings energy
and humor to subject matter that is both complex and trivial,
making Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds a book worth
sleeping in."
--Crab Orchard Review
"Navigates nimbly between narrative and language and mapping the
bright territory in which imagination suffuses the mundane. Droll,
allusive, plaintive in an ironic pitch, Ball's lyrics defy reader
expectations as they develop, dodging and burning to create vibrant
sound patches and images."
--The Hollins Critic
"Ball gives her reader a world as complex as its characters,
as challenging as the dichotomies humans create. Ball brings energy
and humor to subject matter that is both complex and trivial,
making "Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds "a book worth
sleeping in."
"--Crab Orchard Review"
Navigates nimbly between narrative and language and mapping the
bright territory in which imagination suffuses the mundane. Droll,
allusive, plaintive in an ironic pitch, Ball s lyrics defy reader
expectations as they develop, dodging and burning to create vibrant
sound patches and images.
The Hollins Critic"
"Ball gives her reader a world as complex as its characters, as
challenging as the dichotomies humans create. Ball brings energy
and humor to subject matter that is both complex and trivial,
making "Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds "a book worth
sleeping in."
"--Crab Orchard Review"
" 'I want to be you, ' says a poem in "Night Clerk at the Hotel of
Both Worlds," Achilles, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Beethoven, Breton,
Borges, Byron, Coleridge, Cortez, de Chirico, Freud, Garcia Ma
rquez, Guillaume, Kipling, Magellan, Marilyn Monroe, Menelaus, John
Stuart Mill, Rimbaud, Larry Rivers, Sartre, Tolstoy, Pancho Villa,
Wordsworth, and a few stellar others meet in the surprising pages
of this desperately beautiful book. Thereafter they're free to
mingle ever more strangely in one's newly ignited imagination."
--Dara Wier
" At once literary and conversational, enigmatic and lucid,
exuberant and wounded, these nimble poems wed the world of
imagination to the world of experience. Every jaunty line explodes
in at least two directions: devilishly up into the mind; ardently
down into the heart."
--Terrance Hayes
