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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"

Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "j/j and TT make a correspondence in Emerson's sense—the original green building, if you will—when two have the inside with the outside. They begin with the commercial (the outside, publishing industry's inside), and the correspondence grows organically from there to include exchanges on the nature of sexuality (both inside and manifest on the social outside) and the relevance of the mythological in our postmodern living (tracing myth back to origins, inside ancient humans, but in the context of literature, which is outside us and socializing). I come away from reading their high-energy 300-plus pages with my clearest sense to date—and I have been wrestling with psychomachiatic truths for several years now-of what amounts to a statement for our generation on the significance of Poetry."—Rich Blevins

"Sex lost its teeth when it became an abstraction, but in 'cock-burn', j/j hastain remembers that fucking has always been and will always be revolutionary. Teeth and all other parts. Here is a map in 1:1 scale, without gloss or euphemism. The oracle in the temple of the body speaks from the shadows, long absent. The news is good"--publisher's web site, viewed on March 19, 2014.

"To begin each of these works I waited at a precipice: I slowed myself intentionally, tarried as a way of honoring what I was about to enter. There is materiality in the form which exists before the form that will be made; there are ways to dramatize upcoming linkage. Pause catalyzes future force."

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Art. Hybrid. A profoundly generative body of work, this collection of interspersed poems and collages make lush and mysterious visual/verbal gems that reveal the presence of a vital imagination at play. This is truly an inter-species book, part image, part story, part human and part wilderness.

Poetry. "SAPPHOPUNK is a vivid, visceral experiment in 'somatic abundance, ' a hybrid text blurring prose, poetry, history, and theater. Set in a sensual, imaginary academy, hastain's text describes a teacher, S, who 'conjures cooperative thrive' among her female students. Their idyllic rituals are disrupted when S encounters Phaon, an 'outcast' whose gender play disturbs the initiations S orchestrates. 'Can S conceive of a reason to transcend the anatomy of her academy?' asks hastain. What's at stake here is how to value lesbian literary history built on gender binaries while simultaneously writing queer literature that interrogates those binaries." Carol Guess"

CLEF MANIFESTO: A thirdway we key between "fiction" and "real" TREATISE UPON THE AUTONOMOUS INDIGENOUS: this holy input is not the derivative of any school but of devotion CONTENTS THE DUDES ORGANS TWO MARYS ARE BETTER THAN ONE ANGEL BOOTIE AND SWAGGER INTERVIEW"

Poetry. Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Series. Winner of the 2010-11 Chapbook Award. Some of these poems / poem images first appeared in Elective Affinities and Sous Les Paves.