Hotel Almighty

Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty is a book-length erasure of Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and possibility in elliptical, enigmatic poems. Here, &quote;joy would crawl over broken glass, if that was the way.&quote; Here, sleep is &quote;a circle whose diameter might be small,&quote; a circle &quote;pitifully small,&quote; a &quote;wrecked and empty hypothetical circle.&quote; 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.