Will I love Model City?

The book is a haunting description of a model city, written in Berlin and other cities, that answers the question: “What was it like?” Each of the seventy pages of the book contains four long sentences in prose, each of which begins, “It was like.” 

Every time I read the book, which I teach in my classes, I am delighted by her prose style and awed by Stonecipher’s ability to depict both presence and absence. Stonecipher is exclusively a prose poet and has written a book about that poetic form. Her writing also displays proceduralism, which is the invention of… show more.