Hotel Lautréamont is a 1992 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery.

Barbara Everett of The Independent described the language of the book as "dislocated, dehistoricised, only making meaning if treated as a purely verbal pleasure.

At the precise point at which the reader might trust a poetic world or style, the poem changes gear."

The post-modern feeling for language is similar: words may be written, but can't mean.

But real poems are being written in England, in Australia, the Caribbean and the US by at least a dozen English-speaking poets who are committed to a language that lives and dies.