Hotel Oblivion

Cynthia Cruz

• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781954245112
• eBook ISBN: 9781954245198
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Poésie américaine

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, 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's 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's self. In Hotel Oblivion, 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.

Contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
4. Copyright Page
5. Contents
6. Neukölln
7. Blood Work—Steady Decline
8. Stammer
9. Number
10. Saturday
11. The Ring
12. Fragment: Pollen
13. Fragment: Small Talk on Melancholia
14. Fragment: On the Magical World of the Animal
15. Hotel Letter
16. Hotel Letter
17. Hotel Letter
18. Hotel Letter
19. Hotel Letter
20. Hotel Letter (Refrain)
21. Hotel Letter
22. Hotel Letter
23. Hotel Letter
24. Fragment: Verzweiflung
25. Fragment: Verwüstung
26. Fragment
27. Fragment: The Earth Like a Golden Goblet Over Whose Rim the Golden Ripples of the Moon Foamed
28. Refrain
29. Ursprung
30. Fragment
31. Hotel Warsaw
32. Fragment
33. Hotel Letter
34. Hotel Letter
35. Fragment
36. Fragment
37. Hotel Letter
38. Hotel Letter
39. Refrain
40. Refrain
41. Fragment
42. Phosphorescence
43. Fragment
44. The Moment of Exposure Is the Moment When It All Begins
45. Fragment
46. Fragment
47. The Gift
48. Fragment: I Twice Drew, Both Times from a Different Angle, the Gap Between Two Poplar Trees
49. Fragment: Warsaw
50. Hotel Belgrade
51. Fragment
52. Correspondence
53. Fragment
54. The Undersong
55. Fragment
56. Hotel Warsaw: Fragment
57. Philosophy
58. The Way
59. Small Atlas
60. Tagebücher
61. Hotel Letter
62. Felt
63. Fragment: Nachleben
64. Correspondence
65. Schöna
66. The Reason
67. The Language
68. Fragment: With Scrap of Fur on My Left Shoulder
69. Hotel Nocturnal
70. Bambule
71. The Moment
72. Definition
73. Its Origins
74. Notes
75. Acknowledgments
76. About the Author

Neukölln

Blood Work—Steady Decline

Stammer

Number

Saturd...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Neukölln
• Blood Work—Steady Decline
• Stammer
• Number
• Saturday
• The Ring
• Fragment: Pollen
• Fragment: Small Talk on Melancholia
• Fragment: On the Magical World of the Animal
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter (Refrain)
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Fragment: Verzweiflung
• Fragment: Verwüstung
• Fragment
• Fragment: The Earth Like a Golden Goblet Over Whose Rim the Golden Ripples of the Moon Foamed
• Refrain
• Ursprung
• Fragment
• Hotel Warsaw
• Fragment
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Fragment
• Fragment
• Hotel Letter
• Hotel Letter
• Refrain
• Refrain
• Fragment
• Phosphorescence
• Fragment
• The Moment of Exposure Is the Moment When It All Begins
• Fragment
• Fragment
• The Gift
• Fragment: I Twice Drew, Both Times from a Different Angle, the Gap Between Two Poplar Trees
• Fragment: Warsaw
• Hotel Belgrade
• Fragment
• Correspondence
• Fragment
• The Undersong
• Fragment
• Hotel Warsaw: Fragment
• Philosophy
• The Way
• Small Atlas
• Tagebücher
• Hotel Letter
• Felt
• Fragment: Nachleben
• Correspondence
• Schöna
• The Reason
• The Language
• Fragment: With Scrap of Fur on My Left Shoulder
• Hotel Nocturnal
• Bambule
• The Moment
• Definition
• Its Origins
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author