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The Ruins of Nostalgia

By: Donna Stonecipher

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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. Each poem, also titled The Ruins of Nostalgia, is a kind of lyrical mini-essay, playful, passionate, analytic. Some poems take a location, memory, conceit, or object as their theme. Throughout the series, the poems recognize and celebrate the nostalgias they ironize, which are in turn celebrated and then ironized again. Written often in the fictional persona of the first-person plural, The Ruins of Nostalgia explores the rich territory where individual response meets a collective phenomenon. [sample poem] The Ruins of Nostalgia 13 Where once there had been a low-end stationery store minded by an elderly beauty queen, there was now a store for high-end espresso machines minded by nobody. Where once there had been an illegal beer garden in a weedy lot, there was now a complex of luxury lofts with Parisian-style ivory façades. Where once there had been a bookstore and a bike shop and a bakery, there was now a wax museum for tourists. Where once there had been an empty lot there was now a building. Where once there had been an empty lot there was now a building. Where once there had been an empty lot there was now a building. Where once there had been an empty lot there was now a building. Where once there had been farms there were now subdivisions. Where once there had been subdivisions there were now sub-subdivisions. We lived in a sub-subdivision of a subdivision. We ourselves had become subdivided—where once we had merely been of two minds. * Where once there had been a river there was now a road. A vocal local group had started a movement to break up the road and "daylight" the river, which still flowed, in the dark, underneath the road. * Could we daylight the farms, the empty lots, the stationery store, the elderly beauty queen, the city we moved to? Was it still flowing somewhere, under the luxury lofts, deliquescing in the dark, inhabited by our luxury selves, not yet subdivided, because not yet whole? * Could we daylight the ruins of nostalgia?

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0819500852

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Prose Poetry and the City

By: Donna Stonecipher

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Prose Poetry and the City

By: Donna Stonecipher

In this fascinating book, Donna Stonecipher doubles down on the development of prose poetry and the city. Tactically, her sweeping, complex yet meticulous essay engages Baudelaire's sudden--or is it sudden?--incursion from the constraints of verse into the 'roominess' of prose, 'paragraphs of place, ' while linking 'civic horizontality' and 'corporate verticality.' Tracking possibilities, (m)using everything from architecture to landscape to cookbooks, fl neur-like, her essay exuberantly and expertly gathers together rhizomatic threads of thinkers and poets of the last two centuries. Reads like a song." --Norma Cole "This fascinating exploration of the prose poem begins with a question that most other studies have overlooked or taken for granted: 'What, if anything, do cities and prose poetry have to do with each other?' Donna Stonecipher's touchstone for this question is Charles Baudelaire's prose poems in Le Spleen de Paris, but her excavation of the relationship between the 'built environment' of prose poem and city moves backwards to ancient Greece and forwards to the new sentence. As Stonecipher unpacks the 'dialogic space' of the prose poem, her essay moves vertically and horizontally, providing histories of the skyscraper and the aesthetics and ethics of vertical ascension, and much else. As she moves nimbly through large swaths of intellectual, architectural, urban, and aesthetic history, Stonecipher engages debates central to poetics and to modernity itself, taking seriously the challenge of considering how aesthetic forms register, respond to, and transform their built, social, and historical environments. An indispensable and enlightening guide that is also a pleasure to read." --Susan Rosenbaum

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Parlor Press LLC

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1602359660

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9781602359666

Transaction Histories

By: Donna Stonecipher

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Transaction Histories

By: Donna Stonecipher

Reveling in the paradox of the formal prose poem, Donna Stonecipher’s Transaction Histories gathers together six series of poems that explore the disobedient incongruities of aesthetics and emotions. Stonecipher’s carefully sculpted forms and exacting language are held in tension with an unruly imagination to provoke a vision of experience densely layered with bodies impinging upon and altering each other, engaging in transactions that unfold in poetically complex and emotionally startling ways. By turns wry and melancholic, playful and acerbic, erotically charged and politically skeptical, Stonecipher’s poems marry a deeply felt lyricism to a fascination with the mechanisms of narrative. The result is akin to Roland Barthes’s notion of “the novelistic”: writing that flirts with the gestures and spaces of the novel without the trappings of plot, character, or action. Narrative fragments dart in and out of sight, spectral figures and motifs recur in fugal patterns, and habits of ruthless observation are brought to bear on the details of both intimate life and social organization. Stonecipher lays claim to a stylistic achievement and vision that are entirely her own, transparent and elusive, casual in address and rigorous in design. Whether training its eye on fetishized polar bears, illegal garbage dumping, or ideological debates around rose chintz wallpaper, Transaction Histories tracks the fitful and tragicomic relationships that exist among objects, landscapes, texts, and people, and lays bare the ways in which our transactions keep our lives going.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609386035

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The Reservoir

Poems

By: Donna Stonecipher

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The Reservoir

Poems

By: Donna Stonecipher

The poet blends narrative and lyrical forms to explore the line between the artificial and real in our society, using the reservoir as a metaphor for this mystery. Winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. (Poetry)

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University of Georgia Press

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0820324639

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Prose Poetry and the City

By: Donna Stonecipher

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By: Donna Stonecipher

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Transaction Histories

By: Donna Stonecipher

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The Ruins of Nostalgia

By: Donna Stonecipher

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The Reservoir

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By: Donna Stonecipher

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Pediatric Neurology

Principles & Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M. Ferriero

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Pediatric Neurology

Principles & Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M. Ferriero

This Gold Standard in clinical child neurology presents the entire specialty in the most comprehensive, authoritative, and clearly written fashion. Its clinical focus, along with relevant science, throughout is directed at both the experienced clinician and the physician in training. New editor, Dr. Ferriero brings expertise in neonatal neurology to the Fourth Edition. New chapters: Pathophysiology of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, Pediatric Neurotransmitter Diseases, Neurophysiology of Epilepsy, Genetics of Epilepsy, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Medicine, Neuropsychopharmacology, Pain and Palliative Care Management, Ethical Issues in Child Neurology

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323033652

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Texas Real Estate Agency

By: Donna K. Peeples,Minor Peeples

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Texas Real Estate Agency

By: Donna K. Peeples,Minor Peeples

Now in its fifth edition, Texas Real Estate Agency continues to set a standard of excellence for prelicensing texts. You'll find the latest information on Texas-specific agency relationships in an easy-to-understand format. Book jacket.

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Dearborn Real Estate

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0793153417

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Southwestern College Keyboarding for Windows Document Processing with Microsoft Word 6.0 and WordPerfect 6.0

By: Charles H. Duncan,Susie H. VanHuss,S. Elvon Warner,Connie Forde,Donna L. Woo

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Southwestern College Keyboarding for Windows Document Processing with Microsoft Word 6.0 and WordPerfect 6.0

By: Charles H. Duncan,Susie H. VanHuss,S. Elvon Warner,Connie Forde,Donna L. Woo

College Keyboarding, Document Production Course consists of Lessons 121-180 divided into two levels. The Training Manual, located at the end of the textbook, is a handy reference for reviewing as well as learning new functions. All of the functions learned in the Windows Introductory course and Formatting course are applied and new functions are introduced. Keyboarding/word processing advanced course in both quarter and semester programs found in business and information systems departments at both two- and four year schools.

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Cengage Learning

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053871042X

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The Best of Donna Magazine

By: Donna Kakonge

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The Best of Donna Magazine

By: Donna Kakonge

Taken from the best of Donna Magazine that can be found at: http: //kakonged.wordpress.com on the Internet comes a book that you can take with you anywhere

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Book's by Donna Stonecipher

The Ruins of Nostalgia

The Ruins of Nostalgia

Prose Poetry and the City

Prose Poetry and the City

Transaction Histories

Transaction Histories

The Reservoir

The Reservoir

Prose Poetry and the City

Prose Poetry and the City

Transaction Histories

Transaction Histories

The Ruins of Nostalgia

The Ruins of Nostalgia

The Reservoir

The Reservoir

Pediatric Neurology

Pediatric Neurology

Texas Real Estate Agency

Texas Real Estate Agency

Southwestern College Keyboarding for Windows Document Processing with Microsoft Word 6.0 and WordPerfect 6.0

Southwestern College Keyboarding for Windows Document Processing with Microsoft Word 6.0 and WordPerfect 6.0

The Best of Donna Magazine

The Best of Donna Magazine

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