AMANDA PARADISE

AMANDA PARADISEDescription Reviews Winner of the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award for Poetry Winner of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 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

The first word of that text is apokalypsis

the messiness of a battlefield amputation

Publication Date: October 4

the 17 stylish poems and sequences of Rohrer’s fifth collection take a skewed look at the politics and passages of contemporary life

or racism here

but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments

a moment we can now only describe

Winner of a 2009 Recommended Reading Award from the Massachusetts Center for the Book

And I think it’s what most of us really want from poetry

Poem Hunter

The original is reprinted in exquisite facsimile

its cumulative effect demands rereading