Description
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In Nicholas Alexander Hayes' debut volume, the Dadaist transforms his inchoate sensibility into a form of exegesis. He re-gifts the 'gift' of Gideon bibles found in motel drawers, the Baghavad-Gita handed out in airports. Sometimes damage is itself a form of readerly, writerly love. Out of the harm imposed on these holy texts a new whole emerges, transmuting received wisdom into new propositions, fully filled with the echo of the thought they both betray and express, or re-express, with a strange and haunting wisdom of their own. The result is no joke. The result is a book compulsively readable and, running counter to that fine quality, a set of sentences almost philosophical in their power--sentences which stop the reader from turning the page because the reader's mind has suddenly been opened"--Dan Beachy-Quick.
Author Bio
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer, artist, and educator. Across literature and visual work, he engages in serious play through re-mixing and erasure. His creative and academic interests include '60s gay pulp fiction, vintage beer advertisements, depictions of masculinity on social media, ancient history and whatever pieces of cultural detritus catch his eye. He is the author of ANTE-ANIMOTS: IDIOMS AND TALES (BlazeVOX [books], 2019) and NIV: 39 & 27 (BlazeVOX [books], 2009).
Author City: CHICAGO, IL USA