{"product_id":"hotel-oblivion-9781954245112","title":"Hotel Oblivion","description":"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\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCruz is the author of six collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eGuidebooks for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2020), \u003ci\u003eDregs \u003c\/i\u003e(Four Way Books, 2018), \u003ci\u003eHow the End Begins\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2016), \u003ci\u003eWunderkammer\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Glimmering Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eRuin\u003c\/i\u003e (Alice James Books, 2006). \u003ci\u003eDisquieting: Essays on Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of critical essays exploring the concept of silence as a form of resistance, was published by Book*hug in the spring of 2019. \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholia of Class\u003c\/i\u003e, an exploration of melancholia and the working class, was published by Repeater Books in July of 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCruz earned an MA in German Language and Literature from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the European Graduate School where her area of research is psychoanalysis and philosophy. Cruz teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University and is a visiting writer in the MFA Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a mentor in the Low Residency MFA Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Cruz co-edits the multi- disciplinary online journal, \u003ci\u003e Schlag Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660916920594,"sku":"9781954245112","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_537b3f12-7e56-43a1-a0b0-5676e5205d22.jpg?v=1733479409","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hotel-oblivion-9781954245112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}