Book Review for j/j hastain’s poetry book: a womb-shaped wormhole
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Digest. Absorb. Swallow.
The pages in j/j hastain's a womb-shaped wormhole allow room for the reader's own body
to untwist and bathe against minimal, though wide-open language. Interruptions of images
offer up a supplemental illustration to these haunting words. An ocean smudges its weight
around dismembered gender as j/j creates a new lens into identity:
body/mind/lust/transforming of cell structure. These are chants, soliloquies, letters to
selves stuck inside of form, fragments of memories. This book searches for the animal
within a body and dialogues with its inconsistencies and constantly morphing sex. There is
science here--a projection of exclamations and explanations sewn into tightly-packed lines
which wedge the gap between remembrance and disrobing of the mind. This book is a
longing toward sound, the visual of stained body, an unraveled journey toward..."the thing
that is not designed to be solved".




Reviewed by:
Aimee Herman