The ruins of nostalgia /
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem. 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 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Wesleyan poetry.
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| Summary: | New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem. 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 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- and twenty-first century experience and its discontents, The Ruins of Nostalgia offers a strikingly original exploration of the misunderstood phenomenon of nostalgia as both feeling-state and historical phenomenon. |
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| Physical Description: | 67 pages : illustration ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780819500830 0819500836 9780819500847 0819500844 |