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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.
List of 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
About the author
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). She is the co-editor of
Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013), co-author of
Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (with Alex Dimitrov, Flatiron Books, 2019) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.
Summary
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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