Closing the Hotel Kitchen

Robert Bohm

Closing the Hotel Kitchen by Robert Bohm

Closing the Hotel Kitchen is about war. It is also about falling apart when that is the only route left to sanity. It takes place from the 1960s to the early 1970s, from New York’s streets to Vietnam and India.

Untouched by sentimentality, these poems offer a visceral look at the narrator’s attempts to find coherence within a violent world unexplained by his inherited Christianity or his family’s patriotism.

But Bohm’s often dark lyricism also offers more than a journey into an abyss. His poetry, displaying a capacity to listen to others’ voices and assimilate their experiences, provides glimpses of transformation.

6 x 9 inches • 108 pages • ISBN 978-0-9826968-1-1 • $13.95