Hotel Lautréamont

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480459106

<DIV><B>In John Ashbery&rsquo;s haunting 1992 collection, just as in the traveler&rsquo;s experience of a hotel, we recognize everything, and yet nothing is familiar&mdash;not even ourselves</B><BR /><BR /><I>Hotel Lautr&eacute;amont</I> 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&rsquo;s title poem is itself an evocative echo: Comte de Lautr&eacute;amont 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 <I>The Songs of Maldoror</I> and died of fever at the age of twenty-four in a hotel in Paris during Napoleon III&rsquo;s siege of the city in 1870.<BR />&#160;<BR />Addressed to lonely ghosts, lingering guests, and others, the poems in <I>Hotel Lautr&eacute;amont</I> present a study of exile, loss, meaning, and the artistic constructions we create to house them.</DIV>