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The Millennium Hotel

By Mark , Rudman

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England
Year
1996
ISBN
0819522295, 0819522309, 9780819522290, 9780819569738, 0819569739
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1353530 bytes)
Series
Wesleyan poetry
Pages
vi, 185\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:16:12

Description

In this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Mark Rudman reclaims a sacred space for poetry. The Millennium Hotel is a world of dazzling imitations, a vast casino where personal narrative is recognized as a fiction and death always holds the winning hand. Rudman asks, "How not to be seduced by the new?" as he illustrates the intimate ways in which facade, gender, and memory inform both our private and public realms. Here the interlocutor's voice shifts and freely crosses gender lines, especially in poems about early erotic experience. Mothers, daughters, lovers, and wives are passionately engaged. Its inclusiveness and wide range of tonal registers enable The Millennium Hotel to blend seamlessly the intimate, the social, the comic, and the apocalyptic. The book moves like a series of sonatas, melding childhood, the diaspora, and eros.

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