false 3348592 1 <p><b>A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by John Yau</b></p><p>These poems spin tales of traveling in a world both romantic and politicized, a world miniaturized by globalization and haunted by the figure of the cosmopolitan, who is aware of its saturated history, yet inspired by the knowledge that nostalgia is merely "memory decayed to sugar." In the kingdom of Donna Stonecipher's imagination, "a story is always forming to adorn reality," and the fall of the Eastern bloc is reenacted the night "the girl with the DDR bag met the boy with the CCCP T-shirt."</p><p><b>Donna Stonecipher </b>is the author of <i>The Reservoir </i>and <i>Souvenir de Constantinople</i>. She grew up in Seattle and Tehran and makes her home both here and abroad.</p> 3386994 1 9 2008 The Cosmopolitan total:19|5:10|4:8|2:1| 19 84 43 9 4 1 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 22:04:37 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 22:04:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 05:00:44 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 08:43:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 07:45:05 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 07:51:19 -0700 2009 The Reservoir, her prose blocks make a statement about how I, as a reader, am made to understand things. But with The Cosmopolitan, she takes it one step further by investigating how a ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 29 17:59:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:50:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:59:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Dec 12 09:22:19 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 09:25:44 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jan 25 20:04:45 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 20:04:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Jan 01 15:46:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 15:46:45 -0800 2009 http://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 01 14:53:10 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 16 15:46:50 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 16:35:46 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:42:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 15:24:05 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 15:24:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 08:16:35 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 08:16:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 21 07:09:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:09:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 22:28:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 22:28:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 14:42:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 14:42:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 11 11:03:30 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 06:58:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 11:03:30 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 03 08:17:59 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 08:17:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 26 07:37:19 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 07:36:57 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 07:37:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 17 10:26:58 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:26:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 28 08:22:56 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 08:22:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 09 09:04:30 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 15:09:44 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:04:30 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3348592