our bodies are beauty inducers is a fantastic and fantastical exploration of gender and the physical ground upon which it plays. hastain's words explode the amorphous domain where bodies and beauty meet. Electrifying and kinetic, hastain's work shatters and reassembles the physical into intersecting recombinant zones of meaning: the physical induces beauty in the eyes of the other and true beauty received by the other removes otherness...

Juliet Cook and j/j hastain have collaborated on a macabre series of poems that dissect the body and leave the reader stunned. These poems explore the physical displacement of the femine through the cultural displacement of horror and the grotesque.