Description
| Product ID: | 9781940696553 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | While Standing in Line for Death |
| Authors: | Author: CAConrad |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Creative writing and creative writing guides, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Writing and editing guides, Language learning: writing skills, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Writing & editing guides, Writing skills, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, USA |
| Description: | Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action. Winner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry "From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." —Boston Globe After his boyfriend Earth''s murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of eighteen rituals and their resulting poems contains that success, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry''s ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet. unfastened CAConrad is the author of ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, and The Book of Frank, as well as several other books of poetry and essays. Most recently, he has co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics. |
| Imprint Name: | Wave Books |
| Publisher Name: | Wave Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-19 |
