The Sorrow and the Fast of it
Intergenre, Essay, Poetry
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The Sorrow And The Fast Of It exists in a middle place: an overlay of indistinct geographies and trajectories. Strained between the bodies of Nathalie and Nathanael, between dissolution and abjection, between the borders that limit the body in its built environment––the city and its name(s), the countries, the border crossings––the narrative, splintered and fractured, dislocates its own compulsion.
Praise
The Sorrow And The Fast Of It is a severe and tender book in its ‘incalculable’ correspondence between ocean and ground; the one who writes, and the one who receives.
-BHANU KAPIL
It exists in a middle place: an overlay of indistinct geographies and trajectories. Stephens writes strained between the bodies of Nathalie and Nathanael, between dissolution and abjection, between the borders that limit the body in its built environment–the narrative, splintered and fractured, dislocates its own compulsion. “Stephens is obsessed by breaking free, only to find herself brakeless”
-ANDREW ZAWACKI
“Only the writer who astonishes language, who dares to tamper with it, is worthy of the epithet,” writes Nathalie Stephens, and she lives up to the challenge she sets—hers is a use of language that alters the language as she uses it. And in her case, this means two languages, as she writes in both English and French, often using one to infiltrate the other, to crack the other open. Often we sense the two languages passing each other, and as they do, a charge arcs from one to the other, making each stand out in sharp relief
-COLE SWENSEN
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Details
ISBN: 9780976718550
paperback, 108 pages, 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in
Publication Date: 2007
