Thursday, October 22, 2009
Eileen Myles Interviews CAConrad
This week's cover story on The Poetry Foundation site is an incredible interview w/ CA about The Book of Frank. From Eileen's intro:I’ve grown to love CA Conrad—the man, the work, and all he attempts and represents—because he always argues (from the inside of his poems) for a poetry of radical inclusivity while keeping a very queer shoulder to the wheel. His kind of queerness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of his exposition, a kind of gigantism that seems to me to be most deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence. I made a plan to talk with him on the occasion of The Book of Frank coming into print, and I’m glad I’ve procrastinated finishing this piece so that it didn’t come out in June, where queers belong. Conrad and his creations, I hope you’ll agree, belong everywhere.
You've Come a Long Way, Baby. Here.
- Frank Sherlock
