“This book cements CAConrad as a deeply original voice committed to plumbing humanity's plights in unusual ways.”—Starred review in Publishers Weekly
“In Amanda Paradise, past and future lives collide; entire epochs pass in one line-break; extinct bodies and feelings are resurrected so that CAConrad can reclaim a little more time(lessness).”—Jay Ying, Poetry Foundation
“But if rooted firmly in the frequency of the immediate world, the poems are equally oriented to the horizon.”—Poets & Writers
“Profoundly, their poems stand with life and against the brutality, violence and bigotry that permeate our culture. It is a poetry at once of resistance and wonder.” —Sara Burant for OmniVerse
“...In addition to being the latest addition to CAConrad’s eminently interesting but confounding body of work, it might just be the most interesting-yet-confounding to date. Case in point: the final, very long (72-page) poem in the collection, “72 Corona Transmutations,” may be the best piece of COVID-related literature I’ve read during the whole of the pandemic.” —Kevin O’Rourke, Michigan Quarterly
“CAConrad sweeps across the Atlantic like a furious and raging whirlwind. Emerging from the queer visionary tradition of Whitman and Ginsberg, the cornerstone of CAConrad’s practice is a series of rituals and instructions which their readers are invited to share in… CAConrad’s aim is to unplug from the corporate machine and reconnect themselves and their readers with the earth and animals and other people. This is poetry with real ambition that wants to hug us – it’s big, it’s queer and, like paprika, you can never have enough of it.” —Philip Terry, The Guardian
“CAConrad’s Ecodeviance is a subversive syllabus for a queer ecopoetics, a set of twenty-three “(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals,” which are exercises, all at once, in magic, telepathy, transgression, confrontation, fantasy, wish-fulfillment, interspecies communication, self-healing, and writing.” —Charles Legere, The Boston Review
