Chuck Kinder

Imagination Motel Chuck Kinder

Poetry. IMAGINATION MOTEL contains the secret meaning of movies, mostly old and in black & white, as watched on snowy, late-night television in cheap motel rooms of longing, desire, and flight; light flickering across sparkling ceilings like night skies thick with galaxies or the reflection of campfires in ancient Indian dreaming caves. Pomes with many bags of buttered popcorn and big Pepsis.

Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, one of the many movies flickering across the ghost screens of Kinder's haunted hotel rooms, IMAGINATION MOTEL infiltrates the most American landscape and replaces it with something alien. Only rather than feeling too little, these doppelgangers feel too much; rather than becoming less human, they become all the more so. IMAGINATION MOTEL is a unique piece of writing that tickled me and made me want to watch every one of those movies all over again. 'There is no surprise ending, ' Kinder writes. And yet, there is.--Jacob Bacharach