Description
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry. After his boyfriend Earth's murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry's ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet.
Author Bio
CA Conrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE (Wave Books, 2021), WHILE STANDING IN LINE FOR DEATH (Wave Books, 2017), CIRCLE M (Counterpath Press, 2016), ECODEVIANCE (Wave Books, 2014), A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON (Wave Books, 2012), and THE BOOK OF FRANK (Wave Books, 2010). THE BOOK OF FRANK is now available in nine different languages. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA