Long Past the Presence of Common

"In words that reflect the dynamic complexities of language and human relationships, in lines cascading across pages, challenging the limitations of thinking in terms of duality and revealing an understanding beyond linguistic polarity, j/j hastain wants 'to show / the way that these languages are inherently / slanted / uncountable / yet worth lifetimes of attempt' and does just that. Like tongues coming together in the primal quest for contact, hastain's poetry is the experience of connecting, of breaking fabricated boundaries and going to the source--an essential voice for humanity in an increasingly isolating world." --Ed Go "Full saturation "inverse -embedded wishes" surface and recede in long pas the presence of common, a momentous document which activates a commons for future feeling. This book radicalizes conceptions of the body multiple. Erotic subjects in the form of psycho-somatic wishes surge, intensify, electrify, vacillate, flicker, morph, fume, commingle and melt. This is emancipatory writing. Note too the ecstasy of the viscous embryonic circuitry arc bubble collages which are interspersed throughout. I feel an incredible kinship with this book." --Brenda Iijima "Our bodies render us travelers, or prisoners, and on this truth is born j/j hastain's fascinating new book long past the presence of common. Naming and triangulating are important passions in this work, which often surprises with its multiple vocabularies, even as it refreshes age old debates about the systems of logic and gender that have made a nightmare of the political experience. If you are looking for a book of avant-garde poetry with a revolutionary dimension, you will do well to take this book to heart." --Kevin Killian