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, "e;joy would crawl over broken glass, if that was the way."e; Here, sleep is "e;a circle whose diameter might be small,"e; a circle "e;pitifully small,"e; a "e;wrecked and empty hypothetical circle."e; 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.