ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940696011 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The poems themselves, however, stay firmly grounded in this world, in language that actual people use.H. When Conrad explains that he wants to create” an extreme present, he doesn’t mean that the present which he creates is one that is extreme by virtue of the fact that he has bloodied his foot or inserted a plastic tube into his penis, it is extreme by virtue of the fact that we have all made it extremeI blame everyone when I blame / myself I’m that good a shot,” he says.Drew Webster, Colorado ReviewMuch of Conrad’s work directly illuminates his politics, attacking the separation that he believes American culture creates between humans and the natural world. Dedicated to his
In performing these rituals, CAConrad looks through a sharper lens and confirms the necessity of poetry and politics.CAConrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012) and The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009), as well as several other books of poetry and essays. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.. Listed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetryWinner of The Believer Poetry Award"The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form. Escalators are a nice ride, slowly rising and falling, writing while riding, notes for the poem, meeting new people at either end, "Excuse me, EXCUSE ME." My escalator notes became a poem.CAConrad's ECODEVIANCE contains twenty-three new (Soma)tic writing exercises and their resulting poems, in which he pushes his political and ecological efforts even further. ESCALATOR":The ultrasound machine gives the parents the ability to talk to the unborn by their gender, taking the intersexed nine-month conversation away from the child. These exercises, unorthodox steps in the writing process, work to break the reader and writer out of the quotidian and into a more politically and physically aware present. Conrad m
Just absolutely fantastic. Peter Rabbit Brave and Unsparing. Just absolutely fantastic.. CA Conrad is a lovely madman with a distinctly genius CA Conrad is a lovely madman with a distinctly genius poetic voice. Powerful and accessible, CA and his writing will inspire you to make art and question war.. Dawn L. Martin said Five Stars. Beautiful and wild and brave! Do your self a favor and enter this new way of poetry and poetics!