Hotel Almighty

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