{"product_id":"dreaming-in-the-fault-zone-a-poetics-of-healing-9781643622378","title":"Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the era of the \"chronic acute\" long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing--its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyric inquiry with cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003eDreaming in the Fault Zone\u003c\/i\u003e explores art's treatment of our conditions at a time of both increased cynicism about healing and longing for it. Stecopoulos talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers; curates performances and takes part in community rituals; documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. Whether writing about the poet H.D.'s psychoanalysis with Freud or madness and apartheid in Bessie Head's novel \u003ci\u003eA Question of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, the salve of demagogues or a global alliance of people with contested illnesses, Stecopoulos confronts the poetics and politics of affliction, empathy, memory, and survival. Weaving together esoteric scenes and everyday practice, with flashes of humor, these essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleni Stecopoulos is a poet, essayist, and critic. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing\u003c\/i\u003e (2024). Her other books include \u003ci\u003eVisceral Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir that Petra Kuppers called \"a thick rich book of Artaudian trickster moves\"; and \u003ci\u003eArmies of Compassion\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), a collection of poems that Anne Waldman called \"riveting . . . rare beauties.\" Stecopoulos's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePamenar Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e[φρμκ]\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Experimental Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Space\u003c\/i\u003e (SFMOMA), \u003ci\u003eIn Insomnia: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eecopoetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eViz. Inter-Arts, Second Stutter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Capilano Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other venues. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with writers as an independent editor, manuscript consultant, and mentor. From New York, she lives in Northern California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892940050706,"sku":"9781643622378","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4174917d-92b7-467b-963c-a91427016452.jpg?v=1738213190","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-in-the-fault-zone-a-poetics-of-healing-9781643622378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}