Join us in celebrating the release of Dorothea Lasky’s highly anticipated new book of poetry, The Shining, with Michael Dumanis.
As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s 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 King’s novel or Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. Ultimately, Lasky’s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted—by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and one book of prose, including Milk, ROME, and Animal. She is also the editor of Essays. Her latest poetry book, The Shining, is forthcoming from Wave Books. Her Twitter and Instagram are @dorothealasky. She lives in New York City.
Michael Dumanis was born in Moscow to Jewish parents of mixed Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian descent, and immigrated to the United States at the age of five. His second book of poems, Creature, is published by Four Way Books, 2023. His first, My Soviet Union, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is also coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. With Kevin Prufer, he coedited the volume Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master. He lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College, where he runs the Poetry at Bennington reading series and serves as Editor of Bennington Review.