Palace of Ruins : Ragged Sky Press : 9781933974552 : 1933974559 : 06 Oct 2023 : 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.