A Palace of Ruins: Poems - Paperback

by Steve Nolan (Author)

From the mountains of Afghanistan, to the devastated cities of Ukraine, to the ransacked Capitol of the United States, Steve Nolan takes you on an intimate journey, a portrait of destruction and the human impulse to rise from the rubble to construct a new palace on the ruins of the last. Whether referencing civilization, government, or a single soul, his poetry pays tribute to those who manage to find treasure amongst the shards of a shattered individual life or the shattered dreams of history.

In his theme poem, "The Longest Dream in the World," he shares this:

The longest dream hasn't died.

Dreams are not subject to death

like ideologies, one stacked

upon the archeology of the other-

a palace of ruins... The dream,

like the wind, is the breath

of the world.