The Shining Mark Nowak displacing and distorting our sense

displacing and distorting our sense of intimacy

at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night

myth and place

Álvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal’s great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa

en ze weet door haar woordkeus en verdeling van de dichtregels een grotere waarheid aan het licht te brengen

The Shining Mark Nowak displacing and distorting our senseDorothea Lasky As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Laskys 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 Kings novel or Stanley Kubricks film adaptation. Ultimately, Laskys poems point us to the ways in which