Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of "Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales," "NIV: 39 & 7" (both published by BlazeVOX), "Between" (Atropos), "ThirdSexPot" (Beard of Bees), and "Metastaesthetics" (Atropos). His work has been featured in the anthologies "Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism" and "Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts." Most recently his creative writing has appeared in "Scab", "Peculiar Mormyrid", "SurVision", and "BlazeVox Journal".
This unique study examines the interface between contemporary philosophy and literature through Alexander Pope’s majestic translation of the Odyssey of Homer. Employing the lens supplied by the philosopher Graham Harman in his development of Object-Oriented Ontology, it explores the beautiful (and sometimes dazzling) figurative language of both Pope’s English and Homer’s Greek; in so doing, it uncovers something of the vast withdrawn and subterranean reality to which the poems can only allude, setting this against a contrasting sensual world—a world encrusted with shimmering images and objects that range from the quotidian to the metaphysically bizarre.
Introduction: The Tiniest Sign. Time and Chance: Punctuality and the Coin Toss. Dit Dah: Codes to Sigh For. With a Bullet: Checklists and Dingbats. And a Half: Musical Dots. For Short: Mr., Sr., et al. Dot Dot Dot: Ellipses, Lacunae, and Missing Links. Stet: Emendations of Immortality. Ninety-Eight Point Six: Decimals and Determinings. Dot Com: Computation Punctuation. Bang!: The Dot Meets The Family. Period: The End Point. Afterword and Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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.
A major goal of the book is to provide a truly general course that integrates all the major areas of chemistry. Physical princples, inorganic compounds, and analytical techniques are addressed throughout.
International Retailing reflects contemporary research and current practice, focusing on what is happening in the field, who is making it happen, why it is happening in the way it is, and how it is happening. Structured around four parts, this textbook guides students through the internationalization process, considering international markets, and how retail companies operate within them. It concludes by exploring future trends and challenges of the international retail marketplace." "The text is packed with a wealth of international examples and familiar case studies, clearly showing how the theory translated into practice."--BOOK JACKET.
This is the guidebook to a superhero tabletop RPG. This book contains all the rules and information you need to know, in order to start playing with your friends. The game is relatively simple to understand and focuses heavily on the role-play aspect of RPGs, while still having a fairly engaging combat and ability system. Not a lot of materials are required to get into the game, just paper, pencils, a copy of the guidebook and a few dice (1d20, 1d4 and 1d8 to be specific). Game sessions are fast and fun, with each session being only an hour, and players level up at the end of every session. Players get to determine their own backstory, appearance, name, and superhero alter ego. This book contains six different abilities for players to choose from, each with many interesting and creative uses. The number of abilities players can have are only limited by their stats, meaning players have the choice to have as many or as few abilities as they desire as they level up their character. This doesn
OThere is no rainbow, no silver lining in this debut novel from [Hayes]. It doesn't all work out. No one feels better in the end. In a letter to his friend, Franz Kafka said that we need Obooks that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves.' "Between" is that disaster.ONTerri Griffith, author of "So Much Better.
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