The Book Of Frank by C.A. Conrad

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.