Hotel Almighty
Hotel Almighty by Sarah J. Sloat, published by Sarabande Books in 2020, is a unique exploration of themes derived from Stephen King’s Misery, presented through a series of erasure poems. This edition, comprising 86 pages, showcases Sloat’s innovative approach to poetry, where each piece serves as a visual and textual reimagining of the original work’s constraints and possibilities. The language is both evocative and enigmatic, inviting readers to engage with the text on multiple levels.
In Hotel Almighty, readers will encounter a blend of poetry and mixed media that transforms each poem into a miniature canvas, reflecting the complexities of the human psyche. The work delves into concepts of joy and confinement, with imagery that challenges conventional perceptions. Sloat’s distinctive style captures the essence of women artists and American poetry, making this book a thought-provoking addition to contemporary literature.
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Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat’s Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of pages from 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.
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