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C. A. Conrad. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics. Wave Books. 2012. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1933517-59-9
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, by C. A. Conrad, is a collection of 27 (soma)tic exercises paired with the poems they have inspired. There are two ways to read this collection: as a narrative of the lived poetic process that is C. A. Conrad's life, or as a guidebook to creating individualized performance art and poetry. The free-verse poems are imaginative, but tend to stray so close to the avant garde that they lose meaning. The poems make use of imaginative formatting and have...