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The Shining

Dorothea Lasky

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Wave Books
  • Publish Date: Oct 3rd, 2023
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.30in - 0.40in - 0.26lb
  • EAN: 9781950268856
  • Categories: Women AuthorsSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, LossSubjects & Themes - Places

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About the Author

Lasky, Dorothea: - 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.


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Praise for this book

Laugh, 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