Susan Gevirtz w/ Lauren Shufran

The poems in Susan Gevirtz‘ Hotel abc function as ethnographic notes, exposing the fact that we are all under the thumb of circadian rhythm, struggling to negotiate our shared condition. Reporters and hotel guests leave and enter the book, revealing that the face of the beloved is also an icon, that some sounds can only be heard in certain places and that the origins of language are impossible to locate.

Lauren Shufran is a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she is finishing her dissertation on the influence of Reformed theology on British love poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries. Her first book of poems, Inter Arma, won the Motherwell prize and was published by Fence Books in 2013.