Myrrh to Re All Myth

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "At once reckless, eccentric and graceful, j/j hastain's newest collection creates a poetics of overflow that interrogates the very nature of form, 'filling the filigree/with embodied/flicker/all of the parts of our flesh-compass.' In myrhh to re all myth, the poet innovates a fluidity that nurtures form 'as gap to invert/while we so ravenously/invent.' Rather than the brittle stasis of conventional poetry, this supple work rises to the level of jubilant defiance. Attending to our 'human askew' in a manner that is both empathic and challenging, hastain enacts dynamic swerves: this book generates an eros and intimacy that have social, spiritual and 'a truly galactic activism.'"—Elizabeth Robinson

"'This is a romance of fractals,' an invigorating linguistic panoply which refuses to be any one thing. myrhh to re all myth gives us a vivid transdifferentiated poethic state—a sonic inquiry—thus feral post-gendered embodiment of 'the infinitely ferric dress.' Multiple, layered, disarming and hauntingly worthwhile, hastain spins a fine vocalic lyric gossamer about us, a future ethos and new grammatical treatise of fracture, rediscovery, and retelling, a myrhh re(garding) all myth."—Susana Gardner

"MYRRH TO RE ALL MYTH is a vast consortium of direct transmissions from the brain stem, the limbic system, the neocortex and the ecosystem—these transmissions are then transduced by intensive language decoding the flows. hastain presents a sensual wardrobe of aternal, untimely and actual meanings that give a perlocutionary effect of incredible wonder. I'm entranced by this book."—Brenda Iijima