The Ruins of Nostalgia

"What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 ... prose poems addressing late-twentieth- and twenty-first century experience and its discontents, [this book] offers a strikingly original exploration of the misunderstood phenomenon of nostalgia as both feeling-state and historical phenomenon"--

About the author

DONNA STONECIPHER (Berlin, Germany) is a poet and translator with an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of six books of poetry including The Reservoir, The Cosmopolitan, Model City, and Transaction Histories, which the New York Times named a top ten collection of 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Stonecipher
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2023
• EAN: 9780819500830
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0083-0
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 259 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 328 g
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies