Research Catalog

Title

Deviant propulsion / by CAConrad.

Author

Conrad, C. A.

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU

Description

99 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

"CA Conrad's poems vibrate with the flamboyant desire that manifests itself in queer culture, where the right to act on basic desires can become a battleground, and everyday acts of love and devotion must be enacted as a political form of defiance. The poems that emerge from this life long struggle illustrate the sharp edge of that defiance and desire, where joy is closely linked to death. In a world ruled by those who govern with fear, and in a landscape barbed with those who are terrified of desire, moving at speed of deviants is the only way to transform potential into action, and desire into positive change."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Marginality, Social > Poetry
• Working class > Poetry
• Gays > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"For years" -- Dear Mr. President there was egg shell under your desk in my dream last night -- "The only failure" -- "Some mornings your hair" -- "I'm falling in love" -- Deviant propulsion -- You not as me but you -- Torn ligament Chorephilia for Marwan -- "Carry another sex" -- "What's the big deal with sex in poeMs" -- M -- In the black forest before the birth of Rilke -- "Legs do" -- It really was for love -- It's true I tell Ya my father is a 50[cent] party balloon -- A world without condoms -- "Crows" -- "Suppose you are" -- The distance -- Imbibe -- "Went to the" -- Poets refine money -- "As though none" -- Exit as real journey to all friends.

ISBN

• 1932360875 (alk. paper)
• 9781932360875

LCCN

^^2005001054

OCLC

57506566

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library