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Book SynopsisAs labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape.
Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have been somewhat flattened in Stephen King’s text or Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptations. Ultimately, Lasky’s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted—by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories.
Trade ReviewLaugh, cry, or shake your head, Lasky cuts to the chase. —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail
If the essence is not in what she says, Lasky’s poignancy is the result of subtle insights, both endearing and intuitive, suggested by what language leaves out. —Sophie Sills, Jacket2
She will force you to acknowledge the blackness of the blood pumping underneath your skin or the claustrophobia of loneliness, but she will not allow you to forget there is light, and that it can exist in knowing another person. —Kristen Evans, Rain Taxi
Table of ContentsContents
Self Portrait in the Hotel
Poetry Hates You Too
Strange Humor
A Lion
High Ceilings
Old Photo
Food Court
The Gold Ballroom
Time
Jeans
The Trumpet
Marriage
Blue Christmas
Old TV
Twins
Hunger
The Mirror
Red Airplane
Vision
Rugs
Swimming Pool
Man in the Window
Red Rum
Maze
Perfume
Blue Hallway
The Bear
Snow Maze
A Lovely World
The Ax
The Green Maze
After The Party
Framed Pictures
Closing Scene
Going Through a Mountain
