The Shining Mark Nowak myth and place

myth and place

grijpt de verbeelding als toevlucht haar kans

displacing and distorting our sense of intimacy

his present and ours

“Melville’s Marginalia” is the essential poem in the collection

The Shining Mark Nowak myth and placeDorothea 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