Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of THE BOOK OF FRANK features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles. Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," THE BOOK OF FRANK is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a "candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape."
Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA
CAConrad is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for THE BOOK OF FRANK (Chax Press, 2009; 2nd, expanded edition Wave Books, 2010). He is also the recipient of the 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. He is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS (Wave Books, 2012), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (SOMA)TIC MIDGE (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com.
Reviews and Other Links
Thom Donovan @ Wild Horses of Fire
Mike Young @ NOÖ Journal
Eileen Myles @ Jacket
Elizabeth Kirwin @ Fairies in America
Paul Constant in The Stranger
Brandon Lewis @ HTMLGIANT
Charles Kruger @ The Rumpus
The Believer Magazine Readers' Top Twenty Favorite Poetry Books Published in 2010
Noah Eli Gordon @ Boston Review
Mary Wilson @ MAKE
Joyelle McSweeney @ Jacket2