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paper \u2022 120 pages \u2022 16.95
ISBN: 978-1-954245-11-2
eISBN: 978-1-954245-19-8
February 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n
Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n [\/column]<\/p>\n [column col=”3\/4″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A specter, haunting the edges of society: because neoliberalism insists there are no social classes, thus, there is no working class, the main subject of Hotel Oblivion<\/em>, a working class subject, does not exist. With no access to a past, she has no home, no history, no memory. And yet, despite all this, she will not assimilate. Instead, this book chronicles the subject\u2019s repeated attempts at locating an exit from capitalist society via acts of negative freedom and through engagement with the death drive, whose aim is complete destruction in order to begin all over again. In the end, of course, the only true exit and only possibility for emancipation for the working class subject is through a return to one\u2019s self. In Hotel Oblivion<\/em>, through a series of fragments and interrelated poems, Cruz resists invisibilizing forces, undergoing numerous attempts at transfiguration in a concerted effort to escape her fate.<\/p>\n SATURDAY<\/p>\n What is a fragment, a foundHotel Oblivion<\/em><\/h1>\n
Cynthia Cruz<\/h2>\n
Reviewed by Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/h5>\n
postcard, ephemera, ruin or a photograph.
For example: Doris Peter\u2019s \u201cChildren
collecting scrap metal, George Washington Street,
1997,\u201d Russian. Or a Che Guevara montage
on dream board in the sweetshop, Neuk\u00f6lln.
Why glean, why assemble, or
how does accumulation keep.
How does getting it all down
do the same work as making. And how
is the gluing of words together
not unlike taking something beautiful apart.
In the afternoon, on Saturday,
I bought a pale blue dress from Humana
and walked alone, home, in it,
through the parades of my emptiness.<\/p>\n