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AMANDA PARADISE

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AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration is a collection of poems by CAConrad that emerge from a somatic poetry ritual involving the sounds of recently extinct animals. The work reflects on grief, memory, and resilience, addressing the loss of loved ones to AIDS, surviving the coronavirus pandemic, and seeking a renewed love for the world as it exists today.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, queer voices in literature, and those exploring themes of grief, resilience, and connection to nature and the world.

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From one of the greatest poetic minds of our century comes the latest collection from CAConrad.

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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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Praised for its radical inclusivity and queer perspective, CAConrad's poetry is described as deeply informed by love and tenderness despite life's struggles. Reviewers highlight the poet as a clear-eyed seer offering meaning in uncertain times.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950268429

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 136

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 University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and upcoming events at bit.ly/88CAConrad.

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