The Book of Frank
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933517492 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Powerful" according to Tiffany McFee. This book starts with a bang and doesn't disappoint from there. It's powerfully visceral with minimal verbiage and almost like doing a hallucinogen.Highly recommend.. Kenso said Read CAConrad. In 50 years, CAConrad will be the poet from the l990s and "Read CAConrad" according to Kenso. In 50 years, CAConrad will be the poet from the l990s and 2000s that is referenced and studied. He explores, expands, and explodes genres leaving all labels in his wake. This book is powerfully written, funny, sad, depressing, hitting topics of love, hate, fear, sexuality, and virtually all other elements of human emotions. What else would a poetry book need? What else could a poetry reader ask for?. 000s that is referenced and studied. He explores, expands, and explodes genres leaving all labels in his wake. This book is powerfully written, funny, sad, depressing, hitting topics of love, hate, fear, sexuality, and virtually all other elements of human emotions. What else would a poetry book need? What else could a poetry reader ask for?. CA Conrad is a Genius The Book of Frank is, well frank. Frank's story is told through a series of poems, or perhaps a single epic poem. This book is darkly funny, sometimes horrifying, and frankly challenging. I laughed and I wept, and was grateful for all of it.
His kind of queerness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of his exposition, a kind of gigantism that seems to me to be most deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence." Eileen Myles"Conrad’s construction and airing of Frank’s reality isn’t just dream tittering. "The poems capture moments, and they don’t explain themselves. Instead, these poems show imagination as a vehicle of outright salvation" Mike Young, NOÖ Journal"At once charming and frightening, The Book of Frank will certainly take the top of your head off, and it might just replace it with something better." Noah Eli Gordon, Boston Review"Conrad's approach is a welcome change from high-minded poetry that steadfastly ignores the body in all its dumb, limiting materialityOnly by engaging this body, by forcing ourselves
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."