AMANDA PARADISE
Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.” The poems in AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration reach out from a (Soma)tic poetry ritual where CA flooded their body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals. Foundational here are the memories of loved ones who died of AIDS, the daily struggle of existing through the Corona Virus pandemic, and the effort to arrive at a new way of falling in love with the world as it is, not as it was.

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AMANDA PARADISE
Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.” The poems in AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration reach out from a (Soma)tic poetry ritual where CA flooded their body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals. Foundational here are the memories of loved ones who died of AIDS, the daily struggle of existing through the Corona Virus pandemic, and the effort to arrive at a new way of falling in love with the world as it is, not as it was.

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AMANDA PARADISE

AMANDA PARADISE

by CAConrad
AMANDA PARADISE

AMANDA PARADISE

by CAConrad

Overview

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.” The poems in AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration reach out from a (Soma)tic poetry ritual where CA flooded their body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals. Foundational here are the memories of loved ones who died of AIDS, the daily struggle of existing through the Corona Virus pandemic, and the effort to arrive at a new way of falling in love with the world as it is, not as it was.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781950268429
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication date: 09/07/2021
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2021. Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a Lambda Literary Award. They also received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia Universityin New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and upcoming events at bit.ly/88CAConrad.

Read an Excerpt

Amanda Paradise is the author of this book, and by CAConrad is its title. I did not mention this earlier because I did not want to interrupt your conversation with the poems. A (Soma)tic poetry ritual I did a few years previously to overcome my depression after my boyfriend Earth’s rape and murder led me to “Resurrect.” I was sitting on a forest floor in New Hampshire when I realized that this man I loved who had changed his name to Earth, died from the very same wounds humans inflict on the planet: he was bound and gagged, beaten, tortured, raped, then covered in fossil fuels and set on fire. This connection brought a flood of grief. After my tears subsided, I laid flat on the fallen leaves, feeling my breath synch with the soil beneath me, and the wind, birds, insects, and as suddenly as I had burst into tears came a lavish shower of peace. It was extraordinary, instantly feeling these connections in my body. These sensations guided me to the “Resurrect.”

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS

ON ALL FOURS I AM A SEAT FOR THE WIND

ACCLIMATING TO DISCOMFORT OF THE SYSTEM BREAKING BENEATH US

900 CHOCOLATE HEARTS A MINUTE AT THE CANDY FACTORY

AUGURIES CAST ASIDE

ONLY IN STACKING BOOKS CAN THE TREE FEEL ITS WEIGHT AGAIN

DEATH WILL SET YOUR DAY RIGHT

BATHE THE DOOR WITH BLOOD OF THE CENTAUR

FOR THE FERAL SPLENDOR THAT REMAINS

ALTERED AFTER TOO MANY YEARS UNDER THE MASK

EMBEDDED SIGNAL TO SHAKE THE DAY

NO ONE HOLDING IT SHUT

YOU CANNOT RETURN A STRETCHED MIND

GLITTER IN MY WOUNDS

WE VANISH INTO ONE ANOTHER AS NEEDED

IMPALED BY SHARP POINTS OF WONDERMENT

DIVING INTO THE PREMONITION

THE ASKING PRICE

ENCIRCLING THIS DAY WITH CENTIPEDE COORDINATION

CAMISADO

ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF

AMERICA’S ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT WHILE THE WARS RAGE ON

MEMORIES OF WHY I STOPPED BEING A MAN

45 MINUTES TO RESCUE THE PHOTO ALBUM BEFORE THE GARBAGE TRUCK ARRIVES

MURDER IS AGAINST A RULE SOMEWHERE THAT IS NOT AMERICA

!! !

VISIT A LIVING BEING TO EAT WHAT FALLS FROM THEIR BODY

72 CORONA TRANSMUTATIONS

The (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual:

Resurrect Extinct Vibration

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