Author of the Month: CAConrad
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Our Author of the Month for May is the American poet and professor CAConrad, who has been described as ‘the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry’. Their work often stems from elaborate ritual writing prompts, ‘Soma(tic) Exercises’, newly created for each work – in the case of CAConrad’s latest, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, a ritual focused on fellow animals who have found ways to thrive in the Anthropocene. A good place to start with this vital poet is The Book of Frank, which Thurston Moore has described ‘a contemporary masterpiece’.
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The new collection from 'one of America's most legendary living poets' (Ocean Vuong), written in the drive to fall in love with the world again not as it was, but as it iswhen the hammerapproached we thoughtis that thing coming this…
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A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book of Frank follows the…
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'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' Tracy K. Smith'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' Ralf…
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Winner of the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award for PoetryWinner of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeFormer United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an…
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After their boyfriend Earth’s murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome their depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success, along with other political…
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this mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetrySince their 2005 inception, CAConrad’s (Soma)tic exercises have been summoning the whole spectrum of human experience in the…
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This series of 23 new (Soma)tic poetry rituals and resulting poems by CAConrad create what we can refer to as an "extreme present" set to reveal the creative viability of everything around us. Poetry rituals such as riding escalators and…
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