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"--