The Shining

Auteur

Dorothea Lasky is the author, most recently, of Animal, published in 2019 in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. She is also the author of five full-length collections of poetry Milk (Wave Books, 2018), Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012), The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books, 2012), Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (2006), Art ( H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004).Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.

Texte du rabat

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. 

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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