Ali Ruckstadter

Her Next Party Dress Ali Ruckstadter

Her Next Party Dress is the debut poetry collection of Ali Ruckstadter. It illustrates the juxtaposition of wanting and watching, and how a changing season isn't what brings a new dress. She was of draped curtains, gliding through the circles ofpeople turned from strangers, flowing and maddening, red in black, the night swan, shehas won before the game begins, shewho shadows her own dance floor, shewho stitches the line between friend and foe, elegant, new, and refined, her next party dress, unseasoned and begg