A01=Donna Stonecipher
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the city
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- ISBN 9781848613881
- Weight: 165g
- Dimensions: 203 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2015
- Publisher: Shearsman Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism. In the various enquiries and explorations of Model City this is also the mapping of a lived condition and its relationships not readily found on every street corner - nor in the broken ideologies from the populist bargain basement proffered by our political cadres. What becomes apparent is that the model city/Model City exists by virtue of a poet's wit and inventiveness, in its accomplished and elegantly measured language. Stonecipher's mesmerizing, epigrammatic fables establish the off-centre polis where, oddly, we find ourselves at home. - Kelvin Corcoran
Donna Stonecipher is the author of three previous books of poetry: The Reservoir (winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition, 2002); Souvenir de Constantinople (2007); and The Cosmopolitan (winner of the National Poetry Series, 2008). Her poems have been published in many journals, including Conjunctions, New American Writing, and The Paris Review, and have been translated into six languages. She lives in Berlin.
