I Prefer The Forests Making Blankets From Themselves

by C.A. Conrad

I Prefer the Forests Making Blankets from Themselves is a bonus chapbook, released as a special limited edition alongside the 2022–2023 handmade series. The initial printing released in October 2022 consists of 150 numbered copies. Subsequent reprintings, if any, will be unnumbered (and will not be offered with perks).




Excerpt:

remember
our metal skin
when the planet
first caught fire
it was
years
before we
understood
the awful
thing we
held to our chest
whatever a poem can
send into the future
please send the
breath
we have
been trying
to catch
for as long
as you can
hold it
so glad
you came by
thank you
as always

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2022

About the author

CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays the latest While Standing In Line For Death is forthcoming from Wave Books in September 2017. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Ojbect and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films, 2016), please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Reviews

[jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

glad i snagged this handmade chapbook. always such a pleasure.