Full Description
"From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." —Boston Globe
After his boyfriend Earth's murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of eighteen 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.
unfastened
in the backseat a
portion of the music is
mucus flying into stillness
at what point do we submit
to the authority of flowers
at what point after it enters
the mouth is it no longer in the
mouth but the throat the colon
making sumptuous death of the world
this is what crossing the line gains
no need to pretend we
are the people we
want to be in
the next life
bone under
tongue drives
taste of snow to metal…
CAConrad is the author of ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, and The Book of Frank, as well as several other books of poetry and essays. Most recently, he has co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.
Contents
Mount Monadnock Transmissions
You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis
Power Sissy Intervention #1: Queer Bubbles
Denise Levertov Vs. Bruce Lee
My Faggot Kansas Blood Confessions to the Earth
Power Sissy Intervention #2: Apostle Paul Suppositories
Flying Killer Robots: The Renaming Project
Power Sissy Intervention #3: Powerball Vagina
Tarot as Verb Taroting Meat
Monkey Grass
Ant Cartography
Bee Alliance
Cherry Blossom Pentacle
Marfa Poetry Machine in 36 Things
Déjà Vu Bus Ride
MoMa's Office of Paranormal Activity
Hall of the Decommissioned Pantheon
Cremation Cocktail
Acknowledgments
