Amanda ParadiseCAConrad Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious. The poems in AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration reach out from a (Soma)tic poetry ritual where CA flooded their body with the field recordings of recently extinct

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sketching relationships between intimate speech and literary language

and pop-up associations

Want: poëzie is onmisbaar

yet whose ordinariness rises to the level of the uncanny

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uit het verwerken van bijzondere taal

soms laat ze bombastisch de zweep knallen

Gedichten over wonen op verschillende plekken

and how poetry informed all of his work from the visual arts to his political essays to his films

Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses-parasitic wasps-in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy

leads all the souls of all the living and dead to a point zero where the remaking of the cosmos can be performed