22 reviews for:

Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

CAConrad

4.43 AVERAGE

ardenizen's review

5.0

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love love love it. needs to be reread in the middle of a forest.

sarahnh's review

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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We are so lucky to have CAConrad on this earth. This book felt magical. I read the first two poems aloud outdoors and a huge family of coati appeared. I finished the book under the stars and a shooting star flew by. The poems are emotional, political, and fighting fiercely for a better planet. They are inspired by the animals that thrive in the Anthropocene: rats, coyotes, crows, etc. I loved the last few pages where CA describes their rituals and inspirations that gave way to the poems. I cannot recommend this enough and can’t wait to read other books by this author. 

girlreactionreads's review

3.0

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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This was an unusual collection (one of the remaining books to read from my sadly over now @the_rumpus poetry subscription). With no names for any poems, sometimes it felt like all one long poem and sometimes individual pages felt very distinct. I never figured out a reason for the shapes—are they meant to be boomerangs? Is each shape actually related to the content of the poem?
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I would say I liked some really cool images and ideas scattered throughout the collection more than I liked the particular poems. 
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[ignore line breaks for the sake of this quoting, /s are mine for clarity’s sake]

“there is tenderness in the way you think the FBI is spying on you / someone in your imagination cares as you undress in the dark”
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“yellow is the color of the world’s favorite star / I am a helio whore hunting for the deeper penetration of light”
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“come sing with me into this dough / what song shall we bake into our supper”
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“no more miscounting butterflies in our utopia / let’s make poems that can rob a bank”

julienb_readin's review

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

cgsunit's review

4.75

emotional reflective fast-paced

ink_nettle's review against another edition

4.5

challenging funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

cowboyken_'s review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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CAConrad’s poems are as intricate and intentional as the forms they take. I found myself not just reading these poems but feeling their souls pulsing through the pages. 

eaholla's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

madding78's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

kallieann819's review

4.0

emotional reflective medium-paced