yellow is the color of the world’s favorite star I am a helio whore hunting for the deeper penetration of light the man I love pees a golden halo above my snow angel we sing keep living keep alive singing for all lives at risk always remember you do not need to like our star to be warmed and fed
[yellow is]
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[yellow is] from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, copyright © 2024 by CAConrad.
Used with the permission of the author and Wave Books.
CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest books are Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024) and AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). The Book of Frank is now available in nine different languages. Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tic for the Future Wilderness, and A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. With Robert Dewhurst and Joshua Beckman, they co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. In 2022 Augusto Cascales made a film of their play The Obituary Show. They recently had their first solo exhibition at Fluent Gallery in Santander, Spain, titled 13 Moons: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
Seattle, Washington
"How are we to believe in Earth if we can’t believe in the Heavens? In the plodding directionlessness of the present, we are lost without the astral maps. I want to point out too CAConrad’s signature care for the visual impact of the poem. The disciplined shaping means that the poetic line here not only carries sound and sentiment but builds toward a striking sculptural presence. CAConrad’s is poetry that reaches for multidimensionality, and in this poem, the arc and increment of indentation is a convincer, moving with and toward the poem’s conclusion."
— Anne Boyer
"CAConrad suggests, to 'learn how/ to live so/ wilderness/ never/ becomes/ mythology.' As the climate crisis intensifies, these affecting and imaginative poems offer readers a space to reflect on what still remains."
— Publishers Weekly
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