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    Hotel Almighty
    Hotel Almighty
    Hotel Almighty
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    Hotel Almighty

    By Sarah J. Sloat

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    Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, "joy would crawl over broken glass, if that was the way." Here, sleep is “a circle whose diameter might be small," a circle "pitifully small," a "wrecked and empty hypothetical circle." Paired with Sloat's stunning mixed-media collage, each poem is a miniature canvas, a brief associative profile of the psyche—its foibles, obsessions, and delights.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSarabande Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781946448651
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      Hotel Almighty - Sarah J. Sloat

      HOTEL ALMIGHTY

      HOTEL ALMIGHTY

      SARAH J. SLOAT

      POEMS

      © 2020 by Sarah J. Sloat

      FIRST EDITION

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Sloat, Sarah J., author.

      Title: Hotel almighty / visual poetry by Sarah J. Sloat.

      Description: First edition. | Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2020]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019048400 (print) | LCCN 2019048401 (ebook) | ISBN 9781946448644 (paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781946448644 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Visual poetry. | Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3619.L635 H68 2020 (print) | LCC PS3619.L635 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019048400

      LC ebook record available at

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