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Hotel Lautréamont

Hotel Lautréamont is a 1992 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.

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Barbara Everett of The Independent described the language of the book as "dislocated, dehistoricised, only making meaning if treated as a purely verbal pleasure. Language used like this restricts itself to an excessively thin power of expression. At the precise point at which the reader might trust a poetic world or style, the poem changes gear."

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