Full Description
As 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.
Contents
Contents
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
