ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

CA Conrad

• Title

  ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

• Date 2014
• ISBN 9781940696010
• Publisher Seattle: Wave Books
• Description 142, xi p.; 10 in.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  This series of 23 new (Soma)tic poetry rituals and resulting poems by CAConrad create what we can refer to as an "extreme present" set to reveal the creative viability of everything around us. Poetry rituals such as riding escalators and showing photographs of himself to strangers asking, "Excuse me, have you seen this person?" In another he pollinates flowers for security cameras, exclaiming, "I'M A POLLINATOR, I'M A POLLINATOR!" One was written with a ghost, another by stargazing to build his own constellations. (Soma)tic rituals are a practice of unorthodox steps aimed at breaking us out of the quotidian and into a more political and physical spiritual consciousness of The New Wilderness. (Wave Books).

• Tags Poetry, American poetry -- 21st century, Ecology and Environmentalism