Dreaming in the Fault Zone

""Whether [Stecopoulos] is writing on ancient Greek medicine or biomedicine, the talking cure of psychoanalysis or the therapeutic force of poetry, her penetrating intelligence lights up multiple critical and paradoxical insights."" —Alphonso Lingis, author of Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality ""Sure to alter the terms by which we understand illness and health, Eleni Stecopoulos’s deeply original meditation is an aesthetic experience and an education. Composed of lines of flight and incantations, learned excavations, and critiques of cure, Dreaming in the Fault Zoneintroduces a wholly new language by which to understand illegible pain. Stecopoulos’s insights on inflammatory response; (hyper)sensitivity; and cruelty in the form of care, should be required reading. This book’s radical incursion is irresistible. . ."" —Mary Cappello, author of  Life Breaks In ""Enthralling. . . Dreaming in the Fault Zone is notable in its range and the depth of humanity and community conveyed through the author’s examinations of the most universal experiences we share: illness and healing."" —Sarah Lawson, C-Ville ""These essays brim with great intellectual audacity. . . . Here are new scores from an alternate archive of critical repair that views symptom and method, malady and care, now as bricolage and ritual, now as empathy’s “experiment wrought from struggle.” Dreaming in the Fault Zone touches the ailing imagination while it reaches for the stars: an exhilarating work of poetics."" —Roberto Tejada, author of Why the Assembly Disbanded ""In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stecopoulos’ essays invite readers to learn, and occasionally laugh at a topic that couldn’t be more relevant."" —Princeton Alumni Weekly ""A major meditation on a complex, labyrinthine topic, told from within the labyrinth. Stecopoulos’s writing in Dreaming in the Fault Zone is as powerful as in her Visceral Poetics. . ."" —Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs ""Reading Dreaming in the Fault Zone, I feel like I am being guided through a planetarium on the dome of which is projected—and is constantly revolving/resolving—the human body, through the skin and cells of which a multitude of voices is shining a history and intelligence that is being listened and sensitized into a poetry, and that all of this is happening, miraculously and necessarily, inside the body."" —Brandon Shimoda, author of Hydra Medusa ""Far from the toxic polemics that propose to explain a frozen world, Dreaming in the Fault Zone is a haunting, sometimes soothing, sometimes unsettling, nighttime companion—a murmuring midnight echo from a strange new upside-down world that was here all along."" —Norman Fischer, author of Through a Window  ""Dreaming in the Fault Zone is a visionary work of profound compassion . . . experimental, choral, and utterly astonishing. . . I read this book with awe."" —Madhu H. Kaza, author of Lines of Flight ""Among the many spaces and places of healing explored in this encyclopedic book, Eleni Stecopoulos describes the old temple where people, manifestly ailing or not, were invited in to rest and sleep and dream, and in that dreaming find the recipe for their own cure. This book is that temple.""  —Abou Farman, author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience