C.A. Conrad
CAConrad is an American poet known for their (Soma)tic poetry rituals and books such as The Book of Frank and While Standing in Line for Death, which won a Lambda Literary Award. A leading figure in contemporary experimental and queer poetics, they publish under the name CAConrad and use they/them pronouns.
Books
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1. The Book Of Frank
In a sequence of surreal, darkly comic prose poems, a central figure moves from a bruised childhood into a disorienting adulthood, confronting family cruelty, queer desire, religious fixation, and bodily metamorphosis. These stark vignettes blend tenderness and violence, grotesquerie and wonder, to interrogate trauma, social morality, and the fragile possibility of transcendence. Spare and incantatory, the work searches for meaning and a strange grace amid ruin.