A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon

We will work for features and excerpts in Bookslut, HTMLGiant, Boston Review, The Rumpus, Jacket2, NOO Journal, MAKE Mag, The Poetry Foundation, and The Poetry Society of America, among others. We will promote this book on CAConrad's author page (http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/65-caconrad), through social media like Facebook and twitter, and on our homepage. We will publicize and promote this book in conjunction with the author's tour. CAConrad travels widely is planning an exhaustive two-month national tour that will include both readings and (Soma)tic workshops in support of this book, as well as many readings in New York and Philadelphia, where the author lives. CAConrad is a fervent self-promoter and has a cultlike following – his web presence is an invaluable asset in promoting this book.

"This mechanistic world...has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."-CAConrad"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."--Eileen Myles "Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true subject of poetry. Only by engaging this body ...can we achieve transport."--Bookforum What is the best Love you've ever had in this world? Be quiet while thinking about that Love. If someone comes along and starts talking, quietly shoo them away, you're busy, you're a poet with a penny in your mouth...Now get your pen and paper and write about POVERTY, write line after line about starvation and deprivation from the voice of one who has been Loved in this world. CAConrad's (Soma)tic exercises desire to literally crack open existence as we know it. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon is an essential how-to book for anyone interested in breaking through their perceived limitations to become a more politically and physically engaged writer. Incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process, these twenty-seven exercises and their corresponding poems confirm Conrad's unwavering belief in poetry as a necessary practice for being. CAConrad, a 2011 PEW Fellow in the Arts, is the author of five books of poetry, including The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.