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werdfert's review
5.0
i have finished reading this book but i don't want to take it off my currently-reading shelf. it's one of those books that when you finish, it's still not finished with you. more than any other book i've read, it is about process. it contains photocopies of CAConrad's notes, the germs of exercises he poses for finding new ways into poetry. the base matter has always been there, but Conrad draws new maps to access them. he shows us what the poetry landscape looked like when he was there but that doesn't mean it will look the same for you. and he does expect you to take part. it's interactive. there is a need for poetry in an aching and cruel world full of war and pain. he wants everyone to join him and he teaches us how to make our own way into poetry, not pedagogically, but by example. if you are lucky enough to begin this book, you will never finish it. it is ongoing and will live inside of you like something refreshing and inspiring, constantly renewing hope that war and pain are only one aspect to a life full of wonder and discovery.
whitehousedotcom's review
5.0
Bless the book designer for publishing this with vanilla bean covers and big, porous tracts of pages: this book is built to collect stains. For a compilation of somatic challenges meant excise concerns of respectability from a writing practice--how we engage "the muscle that bends language" (yes!)--it only seems right for the body of this text to show scars and fluids, too. I have to shout while reading CA Conrad or else I'm wasting my time. When I read CA Conrad, I feel a little less afraid of the caps lock, of any demonstration of emphasis.
This book is a good one to have sex on top of. It's a good reminder to be brave. It's a good reminder of how much body we're lucky to forget and return to.
This book is a good one to have sex on top of. It's a good reminder to be brave. It's a good reminder of how much body we're lucky to forget and return to.
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