Hotel

I'm reading the Fall 2003 issue of Hotel Amerika (along with other journals) and will be reviewing it for NewPages. I'm only about a third the way into it, but am really enjoying a lot of the poems. Some lines that I'm digging:

From Josh Bell's "Epithalamion, Ex Post Facto":

[. . .] Every bride
is gartered for a reason. Every bride
is a lonesome holocaust . . .

From Larissa Szporluk's "Painfully Aware":

In a time when slaves were all named Bark,
the mountain was a vast erection of mysterious

garbage. . .

From Tony Hoagland's "Original Wound":

Because the wound is always smitten
with the blade
and pleasure stabs us too;