Conrad, CA: ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness by CAConrad (Wave Books, paperback) Publication Date: September 9, 2014 Publisher Marketing:  Listed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetryWinner of The Believer Poetry Award "The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form. . . . Conrad must be one of the most original practitioners of poetry forging new territory."--The Rumpus "There was a time some of us believed poetry and poets could save the world; CAConrad never stopped believing it."--The Huffington Post From "M.I.A. ESCALATOR": The ultrasound machine gives the parents the ability to talk to the unborn by their gender, taking the intersexed nine-month conversation away from the child. The opportunities limit us in our new world. Encourage parents to not know, encourage parents to allow anticipation on either end. Escalators are a nice ride, slowly rising and falling, writing while riding, notes for