''A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world'' Ocean Vuong ''Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery'' Tracy K. Smith ''Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance'' Ralf Webb ''Deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence'' Eileen Myles ''Queer . . gorgeous . . . just stunning'' Joelle Taylor A captivating, original call for creative freedom from one of the most singular poets of our time ''this mechanistic world . . . has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry'' Since their inception in 2005, CAConrad''s (soma)tic poems have acted as an urgent appeal for an embodied, unfettered creative practiceRooted in the Sanskrit ''soma'', meaning ''to press and be newly born'', and the Greek-derived ''somatic'', relating to the body, Conrad''s (soma)tic poetry reaches out from electrifying, esoteric rituals. Their methods are elaborate, and the results