Still - by Nathalie E Amazan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Nathalie E. Amazan's first chapbook "Still" is an intimate poetry collection that explores themes of spirituality, liberation, and resilience in the struggles of justice. It is a manifesto of perseverance through personal and societal adversities for the pursuit of peace. As such, this body of work is not only a declaration of faith in the attainment of peace and justice, but also a means for others to find inspiration and empowerment within it for their own life journey. While in peace we embrace stillness and for peace, we embrace it the same. May this body of work lead you to the stillness within for the benefit of ourselves and this world.

Review Quotes

Exploring spiritually, queerness, and liberation, Nathalie's debut takes the reader through a rabbit hole that has them falling deeper and deeper into the unknown possibilities of their own imagination. Still offers narratives of revolution; of community and care; of love; of power within, and beyond; and of what it can mean to exist fully and proudly in a country, or world, that wants you gone. A debut of a new world and the many hands & hearts it takes to reach it, affirming the closeness of change.

-Nat KC Irmer, artist & educator

Nathalie E. Amazan invites us to "struggle in the present for the world we wish to live in." How to manifest the future? Still offers strategies in breathtaking image and sound: "bow my head in sujood," "clean feet of our guests," lift "sun lit fists," un-imagine borders. These are freedom poems, reaching for a world beyond oppression and occupation and insisting that the poet's painstaking movement from syllable to syllable, from left to right along the line and across every break, is inseparable from the movement of revolution.

-Alicia Mireles Christoff, Chicana writer and Associate Professor of English

at Amherst College

Nathalie's word play in this body of work transports me into her inner jihad from the transparency in which she relays her emotions to how I get carried through each poem into the rawness of her subjective experiences. It is a stream of consciousness that keeps me engaged throughout. One of my favorite stanzas from the poem titled "Hiatus" is: "poems do not end instead, they bend through time and space" that is precisely the way I feel about the way my poetry moves through me.

-Sufi Malik, Artist and Content Creator