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    Julia Hastain asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents 978-1-934289-93-8 "asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain is an invitation, a seduction, a collection of portals and pathways into worlds filled with languages and spells and tongue tactility. Prepare to be a voyeur, prepare to have your heart broken, prepare to leave all sense of linear time behind, prepare to be changed. The cadences of j/j hastain's words become like mantra, or a train ride through mysterious geography. This poetry is ritual force imbued with its own vigorous need. Touch your hands here, feast your eyes, travel, desire, enmesh, and press your entire body into its vibrant panorama. This is a raw and real, brilliant and beautiful book. —Christine Lark Fox This book, which is unlike anything that has ever been seen before, brings something with it from the under-parts of sensation. This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the only possible membrane, the only future for a body so new it's still forming: j/j hastain gives us this. —Bhanu Kapil This work is consistently imaginative and beautifully controlled. Very musical and theatrical and intimate. The work is inspiring yet it's not easy or facile. —Junior Burke This work is interactive, and must be prefaced as such. Asymptotic Lover/Thermodynamic Vents is the future of poetry, the place where the word becomes god, becomes embodied, becomes Eucharist. This work is to be photographed, scribbled, masticated, and swallowed like biblical scrolls. It is the place of continuance, a threshold, a shape that circles around itself and never returns to itself, always beginning with ‘yes:' “the future will be the birthing of breath.” hastain's architecture will command you, require you, supplicate you incessantly to fully engage in the lyric—to ingest so deeply and intricately that the verse becomes scripture building cities in your veins. It is not that which can be understood solely by linear cognitive process. Rather, the press of word and sound invites the reader to consume with all senses, relying on the felt sensation and saturated synthesis of rogue images that bubble from internal cauldrons, that appear in disordered manner as lawless mystery. Hastain's book bleeds ferociously of transgressive bordered bodies, presenting a neoteric philosophy of embodiment that thoroughly unearths any dichotomous conceptions of gender, and unabashedly bares internal organs in acts of eros. The poet's continuous gesture is in the asking: “what is the body for?”, and in the answering: “your vibrant marrow being sucked from this gathering of teeth,” and in the mantra: “this act of becoming GRAIL.” —Julieanne Combest …reading j/j hastain's new book i am moved into and through spacious silences, narrative, and epistolary lyric…i am brought into proprioceptive fields of sensory confusion and transmutation…”vomiting up my ventricles”…synaesthetic perceptions are activated…”does the alphabet ever stop its blossoms?”…in asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents it is as if methods of understanding and making sense are reorganized through an alternate motion…creating a new and different relational system…a reconfigured body…attempting to embrace…attempting to electrify and create a space for communion—the communion of gesture and imagination—and thus love.… —Jared Hayes " " j/j hastain is a performance artist, photographer, musician, teacher, gender-revolutionary and phonic-theorist. j/j's poetry, essays and chapbooks have appeared in publications both online and in print: Cliterature, Hot Whiskey, Mappemunde, MiPOesias, hotmetalpress Poetry Prize 2008, etc. j/j currently has a book coming out with livestock editions. j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics. j/j lives outside Boulder, CO with j/j's Beloved. contact j/j at: www.jjhastain.com "

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    Julia Hastain asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents 978-1-934289-93-8 "asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain is an invitation, a seduction, a collection of portals and pathways into worlds filled with languages and spells and tongue tactility. Prepare to be a voyeur, prepare to have your heart broken, prepare to leave all sense of linear time behind, prepare to be changed. The cadences of j/j hastain's words become like mantra, or a train ride through mysterious geography. This poetry is ritual force imbued with its own vigorous need. Touch your hands here, feast your eyes, travel, desire, enmesh, and press your entire body into its vibrant panorama. This is a raw and real, brilliant and beautiful book. —Christine Lark Fox This book, which is unlike anything that has ever been seen before, brings something with it from the under-parts of sensation. This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the only possible membrane, the only future for a body so new it's still forming: j/j hastain gives us this. —Bhanu Kapil This work is consistently imaginative and beautifully controlled. Very musical and theatrical and intimate. The work is inspiring yet it's not easy or facile. —Junior Burke This work is interactive, and must be prefaced as such. Asymptotic Lover/Thermodynamic Vents is the future of poetry, the place where the word becomes god, becomes embodied, becomes Eucharist. This work is to be photographed, scribbled, masticated, and swallowed like biblical scrolls. It is the place of continuance, a threshold, a shape that circles around itself and never returns to itself, always beginning with ‘yes:' “the future will be the birthing of breath.” hastain's architecture will command you, require you, supplicate you incessantly to fully engage in the lyric—to ingest so deeply and intricately that the verse becomes scripture building cities in your veins. It is not that which can be understood solely by linear cognitive process. Rather, the press of word and sound invites the reader to consume with all senses, relying on the felt sensation and saturated synthesis of rogue images that bubble from internal cauldrons, that appear in disordered manner as lawless mystery. Hastain's book bleeds ferociously of transgressive bordered bodies, presenting a neoteric philosophy of embodiment that thoroughly unearths any dichotomous conceptions of gender, and unabashedly bares internal organs in acts of eros. The poet's continuous gesture is in the asking: “what is the body for?”, and in the answering: “your vibrant marrow being sucked from this gathering of teeth,” and in the mantra: “this act of becoming GRAIL.” —Julieanne Combest …reading j/j hastain's new book i am moved into and through spacious silences, narrative, and epistolary lyric…i am brought into proprioceptive fields of sensory confusion and transmutation…”vomiting up my ventricles”…synaesthetic perceptions are activated…”does the alphabet ever stop its blossoms?”…in asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents it is as if methods of understanding and making sense are reorganized through an alternate motion…creating a new and different relational system…a reconfigured body…attempting to embrace…attempting to electrify and create a space for communion—the communion of gesture and imagination—and thus love.… —Jared Hayes " " j/j hastain is a performance artist, photographer, musician, teacher, gender-revolutionary and phonic-theorist. j/j's poetry, essays and chapbooks have appeared in publications both online and in print: Cliterature, Hot Whiskey, Mappemunde, MiPOesias, hotmetalpress Poetry Prize 2008, etc. j/j currently has a book coming out with livestock editions. j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics. j/j lives outside Boulder, CO with j/j's Beloved. contact j/j at: www.jjhastain.com "

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    Julia Hastain asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents 978-1-934289-93-8 "asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain is an invitation, a seduction, a collection of portals and pathways into worlds filled with languages and spells and tongue tactility. Prepare to be a voyeur, prepare to have your heart broken, prepare to leave all sense of linear time behind, prepare to be changed. The cadences of j/j hastain's words become like mantra, or a train ride through mysterious geography. This poetry is ritual force imbued with its own vigorous need. Touch your hands here, feast your eyes, travel, desire, enmesh, and press your entire body into its vibrant panorama. This is a raw and real, brilliant and beautiful book. —Christine Lark Fox This book, which is unlike anything that has ever been seen before, brings something with it from the under-parts of sensation. This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the only possible membrane, the only future for a body so new it's still forming: j/j hastain gives us this. —Bhanu Kapil This work is consistently imaginative and beautifully controlled. Very musical and theatrical and intimate. The work is inspiring yet it's not easy or facile. —Junior Burke This work is interactive, and must be prefaced as such. Asymptotic Lover/Thermodynamic Vents is the future of poetry, the place where the word becomes god, becomes embodied, becomes Eucharist. This work is to be photographed, scribbled, masticated, and swallowed like biblical scrolls. It is the place of continuance, a threshold, a shape that circles around itself and never returns to itself, always beginning with ‘yes:' “the future will be the birthing of breath.” hastain's architecture will command you, require you, supplicate you incessantly to fully engage in the lyric—to ingest so deeply and intricately that the verse becomes scripture building cities in your veins. It is not that which can be understood solely by linear cognitive process. Rather, the press of word and sound invites the reader to consume with all senses, relying on the felt sensation and saturated synthesis of rogue images that bubble from internal cauldrons, that appear in disordered manner as lawless mystery. Hastain's book bleeds ferociously of transgressive bordered bodies, presenting a neoteric philosophy of embodiment that thoroughly unearths any dichotomous conceptions of gender, and unabashedly bares internal organs in acts of eros. The poet's continuous gesture is in the asking: “what is the body for?”, and in the answering: “your vibrant marrow being sucked from this gathering of teeth,” and in the mantra: “this act of becoming GRAIL.” —Julieanne Combest …reading j/j hastain's new book i am moved into and through spacious silences, narrative, and epistolary lyric…i am brought into proprioceptive fields of sensory confusion and transmutation…”vomiting up my ventricles”…synaesthetic perceptions are activated…”does the alphabet ever stop its blossoms?”…in asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents it is as if methods of understanding and making sense are reorganized through an alternate motion…creating a new and different relational system…a reconfigured body…attempting to embrace…attempting to electrify and create a space for communion—the communion of gesture and imagination—and thus love.… —Jared Hayes " " j/j hastain is a performance artist, photographer, musician, teacher, gender-revolutionary and phonic-theorist. j/j's poetry, essays and chapbooks have appeared in publications both online and in print: Cliterature, Hot Whiskey, Mappemunde, MiPOesias, hotmetalpress Poetry Prize 2008, etc. j/j currently has a book coming out with livestock editions. j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics. j/j lives outside Boulder, CO with j/j's Beloved. contact j/j at: www.jjhastain.com "

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    asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain Copyright 2008 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Book Design by Geoffrey Gatza First Edition ISBN: 1-934289-93-0 ISBN 13: 978-1-934289-93-8 Library of Congress Number: 2008938093 BlazeVOX [books] 14 Tremaine Ave Kenmore, NY 14217 Editor@blazevox.org

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    this is an invitation to get caught then in the great writhing free to realize that it only has to touch once

    in order to have mattered

    please please mezzanine me

    slaughter the clock split the house until theres nothing left of the shape but its dividends

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    humanoid strains concord vestibules

    my body is the entire base of the cavern or how many surrogate bodies do i have?

    evidences adrip and bronzing

    what is witness here?

    amongst loving and longing amongst prism plots

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    broken violin bows beginning to husk

    deciduous mouth pieces with essence and a delicate materiality

    harmonious this tongue that bruises in the same ways that it pleas

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    what color would this tone emit? amniotic warps along with all previously unnameds

    lose me loose me

    find

    a carriage filled with finely split pomegranates left on a ridge in central park

    each tiny onslaught of meaning

    in the temporal alley

    turning forefathers into compositions for the revolution 14

    vats filled to their brim with vibrant descants

    each of these efforts to return motility to its source

    these the voracious planks

    of a sub-cortical inn

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    emollient elysium
    if theyre linked the corridor directions can be flexible

    it is the most human hosanna to continue

    where cerebellum becomes fabric

    affix cadenzas perinea potions

    these acts of plentitude and rose

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    vomiting up my ventricles without it being possible that they disconnect from their adits and internal tracts kecking abraxas

    my heart onto your stomach with it still connected to my pec

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    what then is tactility?

    labia majora nadir

    a peregrine equation

    i would fill your buckets entirely until they porcelain until they proclaim

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    i beg you just all me until we can not help but alliance these indubitable cranes

    this is the refusal to button over ruptures why cape the girth?

    i have no choice but to timbre and consume impulsing the diagrams until they promulgate plasma- sauce source-skulls scallops imprinted by her tears 19

    affirmations through intonation rubies and fortifications of the lattice

    i will not erase your jugular your pulsating anchors and aril brandings the way your body becomes its own interpolation while instigating my

    cavities or iconographies

    burying the many faces within opus

    i will stroke phenomena until i vow to you i will stroke phenomena until

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    the arc that you hold me to in order to taste this doctrine

    i want to be your red your sacral oceanic firmament

    your inverted slide as ascension without hierarchy

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    having been born into the haven as shattered from the start

    with only remnants of partially harvested beets at all of its ingresses

    therefore these requiems in a minor key

    therefore beads bleeding from each assemblage

    of the doubly bound wrist

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    poetics of merge

    invocations in this city of mannas

    chandeliers made of claret stock today particularly as recollection of a blinking

    you concomitant and ample

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    the fold as a port of tensions which gather their velocities from more than one area or axis at once

    to alchemicalize the human to grieve ongoing ridges and stains stairs and complexions ambulations that sinew and rise :::::::::::::::::::::::

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