The Shining

Dorothea Lasky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wave Books

Published:16th Nov '23

£12.99

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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. 

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

ISBN: 9781950268856

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96 pages