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Hotel Lautréamont.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashbery, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
- Summary:
- In John Ashbery's haunting 1992 collection, just as in the traveler's experience of a hotel, we recognize everything, and yet nothing is familiar-not even ourselvesHotel Lautréamont invites readers to reimagine a book of poems as a collection of hotel rooms: each one empty until we enter it, and yet in truth abundantly furnished with associations, necessities, and echoes of both the known and the alien. The collection's title poem is itself an evocative echo: Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym taken by Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a radical nineteenth-century French writer about whom little is known except that he produced one remarkable presymbolist epic prose poem called The Songs of Maldoror and died of fever at the age of twenty-four in a hotel in Paris during Napoleon III's siege of the city in 1870. Addressed to lonely ghosts, lingering guests, and others, the poems in Hotel Lautréamont present a study of exile, loss, meaning, and the artistic constructions we create to house them.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Light Turnouts
- And Forgetting
- The Large Studio
- The Garden of False Civility
- Autumn Telegram
- Notes from the Air
- Still Life with Stranger
- Hotel Lautréamont
- On the Empress's Mind
- The Phantom Agents
- From Estuaries, from Casinos
- Cop and Sweater
- Musica Reservata
- Susan
- The King
- The Whole Is Admirably Composed
- By Forced Marches
- Autumn on the Thruway
- The Little Black Dress
- Part of the Superstition
- The Art of Speeding
- American Bar
- From Palookaville
- Another Example
- Avant de Quitter Ces Lieux
- The White Shirt
- Baked Alaska
- Private Syntax
- Not Now but in Forty-five Minutes
- In Another Time
- Withered Compliments
- The Wind Talking
- Joy
- Irresolutions on a Theme of La Rochefoucauld
- A Call for Papers
- Love's Old Sweet Song
- Wild Boys of the Road
- Le Mensonge de Nina Petrovna
- Of Linnets and Dull Time
- Korean Soap Opera
- A Driftwood Altar
- Poem at the New Year
- Central Air
- The Youth's Magic Horn
- Brute Image
- Of Dreams and Dreaming
- Seasonal
- Kamarinskaya
- Elephant Visitors
- The Great Bridge Game of Life
- The Departed Lustre
- Villanelle
- A Sedentary Existence
- Erebus
- The Old Complex
- Where We Went for Lunch
- As Oft It Chanceth
- Retablo
- A Mourning Forbidding Valediction
- I Found Their Advice
- French Opera
- A Stifled Notation
- Haunted Stanzas
- Livelong Days
- Quartet
- [untitled]
- Oeuvres Complètes
- Just Wednesday
- In My Way / On My Way
- No Good at Names
- Film Noir
- In Vain, Therefore
- The Beer Drinkers
- That You Tell
- A Hole in Your Sock
- And Socializing
- Revisionist Horn Concerto
- The Woman the Lion Was Supposed to Defend
- Harbor Activities
- It Must Be Sophisticated
- Alborada
- How to Continue.
- About the Author
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-679-41512-2
- OCLC:
- 890982507
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