Hotel Faust

by Catherine Wagner

Poetry. "There is a troubled and mischievous soul running through the corridors of HOTEL FAUST. It is a soul determined not to be lost. Listen as it grabs and rattles its raw ambivalent sexuality, its solid yet mercurial American identity, its given taken and shaken language. Wagner's poems are poltergeists intruding in the vulnerable reality of the humdrum loony world. They disturb, fascinate and physically move" - Geraldine Monk. "I pick and pick the seam all day/ does I really think anything covers me up/ this my swan is it/ eyes at one end cunt at the other/ a swaying hurting wonder between/ which is posture perfect" - from "CafT Rouge."

20 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Catherine Wagner teaches creative writing at Miami University in Ohio. Her publications include Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004), Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004), Exercises (811 Books, 2004), Miss America (Fence Books, 2001). Individual poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Black Clock, Chicago Review, Fence, Five Fingers Review, New Review, and Soft Targets, among others, and in several anthologies including Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, (Verse Press 2004). She’s working on a new book of poems, and editing two anthologies, both to appear in 2007 from Fence: one of poems by mothers and another entitled A Poetry and Politics Primer.