A work of rich clear sensual language, of "thermal tremble and juice," these poems and photos pull the weaver's threads together, bring focus to "wherein we can be a root to the sea." Sinewy lines are constantly "quoting my biology back to me as vow" and display a "multi-creative musculature" we desperately need and desire. j/j is the real deal, reclaiming a space for engendered anarchy, opening Pandora's secret treasure trove, playing with fire, sound and love. Anne Waldman Here the elemental ground opens as j/j hastain creates multiple sacred sites, the body as it enlarges and contracts, the meaning as it moves in and out of absence and presence, consciousnesses and its negation: these shrines. Here the text is planted in the image, the life is planted in the book, what of life trembles and transforms as it tries again and again to open into writing. A beautiful and complex anti-memoir, dear weaver of disparates, connects the reader to a yet to be named source "wherein we were a root to the sea". Melissa Buzzeo
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