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You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis CAConrad

You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis By CAConrad

You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis by CAConrad

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You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis: And Other (Soma)tics by CAConrad

'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong
'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' Tracy K. Smith
'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' Ralf Webb
'Deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence' Eileen Myles
'Queer . . . gorgeous . . . just stunning' Joelle Taylor

A captivating, original call for creative freedom from one of the most singular poets of our time

'this mechanistic world . . . has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry'

Since their inception in 2005, CAConrad's (soma)tic poems have acted as an urgent appeal for an embodied, unfettered creative practice. Rooted in the Sanskrit 'soma', meaning 'to press and be newly born', and the Greek-derived 'somatic', relating to the body, Conrad's (soma)tic poetry reaches out from electrifying, esoteric rituals. Their methods are elaborate, and the results are unexpected: one, for instance, might begin by seeing the poet flood their body with the field calls of extinct animals - and end not only in a consideration of survivor's guilt and the destruction of ecosystems, but also in an elated sense of the presence, close at hand, of the many friends and lovers they lost to AIDS.

Conrad draws on these rituals to enter a political, physical and spiritual state of consciousness, meditating on ecology, queerness and grief in powerful, dreamlike poetry that invites us to engage with the essence of things. This new selection is a testimony to poetry's capacity to reconnect us with the present moment and put an end to the alienation we feel: from our bodies, our surroundings, our planet.

You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis Reviews

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 -- Tracy K. Smith
In what is now the classic CAConrad mode of both exuberance and defiance, this book, like much of Conrad's epical body of work, is a tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our worlds (minds?). Luminous, sobering, but not without a capacious kindness in its ethos, this latest is a vibrant achievement from one of America's most legendary living poets -- Ocean Vuong
Conjured in the extreme present, this is a vital addition to the global poetry canon. Through a lifetime of devotion to craft, Conrad has achieved an inventive and astonishing collection: a haunting, a prayer, a connection. They show how the ancient technology of poetry is between all things, living and not. Queer and gorgeous, filled with grief and belonging, a body within a body. Just stunning. I am dumb-struck -- Joelle Taylor
CAConrad always argues (from the inside of their poems) for a poetry of radical inclusivity while keeping a very queer shoulder to the wheel. Their kind of queerness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of their 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
These are psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance. CA celebrates poetry as a connecting force, a spell-work which binds us to the earth, animals, stars, and one another -- Ralf Webb
CAConrad's work is as tough and as vulnerable as our bodies, as intricate and blunt as a flattened copper penny or a lily of the valley or the nests we'd build if we were birds. There's a love poem here for Jim Brodey, who once talked about poems bursting apart with 'extreme gracious information'. Right? Gleaming like a mineral in the contemporary nightmare, that's what this book is made of: through and through -- Luke Roberts
I've been a fan of CAConrad's work from the beginning. There is always a necessary and vital life force at work in this poetry. This is a wondrous and essential selection of their noble life project -- Peter Gizzi
At a time when I don't always know how to make sense of what's going on, CAConrad serves as a cleareyed seer -- Jillian Steinhauer

About CAConrad

CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of numerous poetry collections, including Ecodeviance (2014), While Standing in Line for Death (2017) and Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (2021). They have received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, a Believer Magazine Book Award and a Gil Ott Book Award. They regularly teach at Columbia University in New York City and at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

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GOR013179195
9781802062458
1802062459
You Don't Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis: And Other (Soma)tics by CAConrad
CAConrad
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2023-05-25
224
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