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Synopsis
"What if...?" is one of the constant themes in human life - all the choices not made, things not done, lives not lived. In This Imagined Permanence, stephens' second collection of poetry, she traces the reflections of a lesbian preoccupied by the what-ifs of existence. Poet and voyeur, philosopher and recluse, the narrator contemplates the passions and desires of women who exist as she herself cannot. Burdened by her decision to lead a life on the margins, she attempts to make other women's lives her own. A haunting investigation of the universal difficulty of reaching out, entering forbidden territory, living in a precarious world - and a magnificent sequel to hivernale, stephens' first book of poems.
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About the Author
Nathalie Stephens writes in English and French, and sometimes neither. Writing l’entre-genre, she is the author of a dozen published works, most recently L'Injure (l’Hexagone, 2004), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), and Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003; BookThug, 2006). L'Injure was a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois and Prix Trillium; the short fiction, Underground (TROIS, 1999), was a finalist in 2000 for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto. Stephens has been invited to present her work internationally, notably in Barcelona, Chicago, Ljubljana, Norwich, and New York. She is the recipient of a 2002 Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a 2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary. Some of Stephens's work has been translated into Basque, Bulgarian and Slovene. She has translated Catherine Mavrikakis and François Turcot into English and Gail Scott and R. M. Vaughan into French. On occasion, she translates herself.
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- PublisherCoach House Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1896356052
- ISBN 13 9781896356051
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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