The Ruins of Nostalgia

"Donna Stonecipher is a strange, dark, deeply nuanced and undersung poet whose work I have loved for many years. These new prose poems meditate quietly on the collective and individual longing for the past, which Stonecipher calls “only a recurring dream of never arriving.” Essayistic, utterly vulnerable and sobered by recent events, Stonecipher wonders whether “looking forward was actually, depending on your standpoint in history, looking backward, or the reverse.” In disorienting times, why not make disorientation beautiful?"