Hotel at the End of the World : Finishing Line Press : 9781646626595 : 1646626591 : 15 Oct 2021 : How lovely and rare it is to find a book of purely lyrical poetry like Hotel at the End of the World. With images that are at once visually vivid and musical-"the silver sheets of light," "a shawl of rain draped across a distant mountain"-Dinah Berland's book draws us in with all our senses and shepherds us through broad landscapes of feeling. Humor merges with memory and longing in poems about her childhood self, her family, her ancestors: "I'm on a double-helix rollback toward my ancestors, / An unfurled scroll reaching back . . ." In the words of its tender title poem, Hotel at the End of the World offers us a plenitude of "ways . . . of repairing the heart." -Marcia Falk, author of Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings In this affecting collection, Dinah Berland moves-in deft sonnets, a fine sestina, and a terrific ghazal, as well as lyrical free verse-from the personal to th