Books by CAConrad
ECODEVIANCE
(Wave Books, 2015)
This series of 23 new (Soma)tic poetry rituals and resulting poems create what we can refer to as an "extreme present" set to reveal the creative viability of everything around us. Poetry rituals such as riding escalators and showing photographs of himself to strangers asking, "Excuse me, have you seen this person?" In another he pollinates flowers for security cameras, exclaiming, "I'M A POLLINATOR, I'M A POLLINATOR!" Winner of the 2015 BELIEVER MAGAZINE BOOK AWARD (please click HERE for details).
A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON
(Wave Books, 2012)
Since their 2005 inception, CAConrad’s (Soma)tic exercises have been summoning the whole spectrum of human experience in the name of poetry. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon collects 27 new and previously published exercises and their emerging poems, incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process from the tangible everyday to the cosmos of the imagination. Together they manifest as an urgent call for a connective, concentrated, and unfettered creativity.
THE BOOK OF FRANK
(Wave Books, 2010)
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.” This is an expanded edition of CAConrad’sThe Book of Frank, featuring additional “Frank” poems and an afterword by Eileen Myles.