Distributed for Oberlin College Press
The Sleep Hotel
Winner of the 2009 FIELD Poetry Prize, The Sleep Hotel is Amy Newlove Schroeder’s first collection. This book is packed with surprising and courageous poems that are, by turns, dreamlike, sinister, visionary, and erotically charged. Her work maps the psychic life of contemporary America with unerring precision.
Table of Contents
ONE • One Night Lions Came into My Yard • Rich in Flint • This Far & No Farther • Storytelling • Homesick • When I Used to Go Everywhere with You • Home Front • Pacific • After Reading Lao Tzu • Q & A • The Clown & the Frog See Everything • Redeemer Apple • Sonic • Caution • Longing • Ignis Fatuus • Right • Night with Echoes • Hollow • Waterlights • The One Who Doesn’t Love You Doesn’t Matter • Broken Open by Pills • TWO • Poems Are Remote & Cunning as Fire • The World is Transformed by Rain • Watching the Sunset on Peconic Bay, Long Island • The Bone Room • How Wide. How Red. How Canopy. • Covet • First • Turning Thirty • Interstate Five • Tight, Slack, Tight • Jumble • Messengers of Error • Bride Saddle with Stirrups • The Sleep Hotel • Even People I Loved • Via Negativa • A Sense of Proportion • Brightness Falls • Think: Fire • Prophecy • The Wake • Notes • Acknowledgments