{"product_id":"while-standing-in-line-for-death","title":"While Standing in Line for Death","description":"Winner of the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\n\n\"From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present.\" —Boston Globe\n\nAfter his boyfriend Earth's murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of eighteen rituals and their resulting poems contains that success, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry's ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet.\n\nunfastened\nin the backseat a\nportion of the music is\nmucus flying into stillness\nat what point do we submit\nto the authority of flowers\nat what point after it enters\nthe mouth is it no longer in the\nmouth but the throat the colon\nmaking sumptuous death of the world\nthis is what crossing the line gains\nno need to pretend we\nare the people we\nwant to be in\nthe next life\nbone under\ntongue drives\ntaste of snow to metal…\n\nCAConrad is the author of ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, and The Book of Frank, as well as several other books of poetry and essays. Most recently, he has co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54005414166872,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781940696553_a35bdbbb-ecbe-4e45-8c61-a71b407c445b.jpg?v=1779941744","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/while-standing-in-line-for-death","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}