In Donna Stonecipher's debut collection of poems, a continual
renovation of prose-poem forms unites narrative with lyricism to
invent a luxurious little country, where the elegance of
architecture, specifically European, houses a purely American
spirit.
"Anything seen through an arch is instantly picturesque,"
declares the first line of "Album." Form renders meaning and makes
beauty possible, and yet the arch is an artificial imposition on
the scene. Likewise, birds, butterflies, and a swan flit through
the poems, symbols of the artifice of ornamentation that dazzles in
the distance but disappoints upon closer inspection; in these
poems, a bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.
It is the reservoir, artificial but functional, beautiful only
incidentally, that, "placid through the seasons, may save us." The
union of narrative (function) and lyricism (beauty) in the
reservoir, both reserving and reserved, results in poems that have
much to tell, and even more to hold in, leaving the reader with the
impression of secrets partly revealed, partly kept in reserve as
mercurial lifeblood.
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