While Standing in Line for Death

By CAConrad Description Reviews After their boyfriend Earth’s murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome their depression. This new book of 18 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. WINNER of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay PoetryFinalist for the 2018 Firecracker Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Grief and survival drive these poems, but never so much that Conrad forgets anger…A ferocious work of queer rage. Elwin Cotman, Electric Lit The poems range widely from delightful to gut-wrenching and can move from despair to defiance to exuberance from line to line: “few things tire me more than/ imagining/ reincarnation/ a child/ struggling/ all over again to/ not favor war/ not surrender to greed.” Conrad consistently surprises, and few, if any,