The Millennium Hotel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Rudman
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Poetry or poets, Fathers, Death or dying, Hotels, motels, or inns
Mark Rudman uses the image of the Millennium Hotel (an actual hotel in lower Manhattan) to suggest the various stopping places and temporary residences which seem to characterize life at the end of the twentieth century. The hotel and its related images (other hotels, casinos, sleepaway camps, and apartments) create the sequence of settings for this long series of interlocking poems that segue one into another and make the framework for this loose narrative depicting the poet’s life and consciousness. The titles of the poem’s four sections suggest the themes of the whole work:...
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