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Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book’s focus on communing with animals who are extinct toward communicating and caring for animals still living among us. Recalling the historical and symbolic significance of the boomerang as an instrument of return, these poems emerged from a (soma)tic poetry ritual in which the author wrote to animals who have found ways to thrive in the Anthropocene, resulting in sculptural poems that are both hopeful and cautionary as they emerge organically from the bottom of each page. Guided by the urge “to/desire/the world/as it is/not as/it was,” CAConrad writes from an ecopoetics that is generous and galvanizing, reminding us of how our present attentions collectively shape a future humanity.
- GenresPoetry
112 pages, Paperback
First published May 2, 2024
About the author
C.A. Conrad
45 books548 followersCAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays the latest While Standing In Line For Death is forthcoming from Wave Books in September 2017. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Ojbect and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films, 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
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May 13, 2024
YOU BITCHES CAN’T EVEN SPELL PRAGUEEEEEEE
January 22, 2024
i just really love CAConrad ok!
June 23, 2024
CAConrad says in "a (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual at the end of the collection: "My poems are breathing wild creatures. They stand at the bottom of the page, vibrating in the center of their bodies." And they are and do, beautifully! Pick any of them and move with their flow, or flip through the book and watch them move.
On an aside, as with any Wave Books book, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return begins with the cover and ends with the back cover. And each detail in between, incl front and backmatter, speaks to the book at hand. Here it means that the boomerang "returns" in different shapes and designs throughout the collection. I love that about Wave Books. They present an at once uniform and distinct style, which is yet precisely tailored to each one of them and an integral part of their individual content.
On an aside, as with any Wave Books book, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return begins with the cover and ends with the back cover. And each detail in between, incl front and backmatter, speaks to the book at hand. Here it means that the boomerang "returns" in different shapes and designs throughout the collection. I love that about Wave Books. They present an at once uniform and distinct style, which is yet precisely tailored to each one of them and an integral part of their individual content.
June 3, 2024
Sommige gedichten vond ik erg sterk, vooral evocatief. Andere, well, less so.
April 27, 2024
I've not read a poetry collection like this before. It has no pages, no titles, no sections. Every poem is a single stanza and no two stanzas in the whole collection have the same form. Reading this book is an exercise in becoming absolute intimate with the present moment, which is what CA Conrad did when creating these poems. There's a life in all of them and a lightness that dominates the punchy moments of resistance scattered throughout that strikes at the evils that humanity imposes on the world. Highly recommend!
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June 28, 2024
Great experience! I will keep my review short on this book as well, but all I can say is it stands as a great piece of poetry and a great piece of work that was released in 2024. Poetry lovers, this one is a catch, and for those who are not following such style, give it a try, it's enjoyable none the less!
June 19, 2024
purgatory is cruel to poets
a separate holding tank where
every melancholy phrase was invented a lifetime resisting adjusting to violence pity creatures
with the softest fur the more we dance
the better our poems
trying our best
to cinch it to hitch it to the jasmine
ascension
a separate holding tank where
every melancholy phrase was invented a lifetime resisting adjusting to violence pity creatures
with the softest fur the more we dance
the better our poems
trying our best
to cinch it to hitch it to the jasmine
ascension
May 18, 2024
This touching collection of poetry creates a somatic experience and carries your soul across the poetry. This brilliant collection comes from a place of deep listening and tells stories that strike the depth of the soul. This is an absolute must-read.
June 8, 2024
first, this is without rhyme, which, in my book, is a significant minus for poetry. second, it was too melodramatic, after about 20 pages i dropped it as DNF.
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