The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands Together

by Jared Hayes

Poetry. "I understand Jared Hayes is conducting here a deep spelunking into connected caverns of other texts. What I don't yet quite grasp is how he's articulated all the ropes, quickdraws, carabiners, hexes, cams, and sundry poetical devices to work in such syntactically spectacular ways. 'I root up (I have brought them) landinwards, hither (I will make them resound here.)' And that's just at the first drop, barely in, still fathoms to go.... Well, some people have the ambition and guts and others just watch. I could say 'tour de force' from my spectator chair, but that wouldn't really do. So I'll say, as a first handle on it, that THE DEAD LOVE joins the masterpieces of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Susan Howe, and Ronald Johnson as one of the most exhilarating 'citational' explorations ever made in American poetry."—Kent Johnson

114 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2012

About the author

"seeing something simply in its being-thus--irreparable, but not for that reason necessary; thus, but not for that reason contingent--is love.

at the point you percieve the irreparability of the world,at that point it is transcendent.

how the world is--this is outside the world."--giorgio agamben