French Lessons
Hatcher, Roberta This collection, the author's first, takes slippages in language as a starting point to explore gaps within the self, between the self and the world of others and everyday objects, as well as faultlines within the body politic. The encounter with a foreign tongue becomes an occasion for both loss of self and opening into otherness, the attempt to gain a hold on things by writing them down proves ominously fleeting. At turns playful and sober, ...