Priest/ess

"Priest/ess is hastain's epic of transitional consciousness-an over-arching poetics that spans a variety of means to forward trans formation. Obvious themes within any social frame are brought to a shape-shifted ecstatic healing-from cast-out normative body register to flaccid spiritualism. Populated with the usual archetypes of epic human consciousness-male/female, mother/father, light/dark-the Priest/ess books convey us to a hidden history of transparent magics. A collection of notes, songs, poems and diaristic entries sourced from near and far mythologies, move narration into a transcendental and uncategorizable masterwork surprising on all levels"--