this new expanded edition of The Book of Frank is available from WAVE BOOKS

(click HERE and HERE for samples)

the new edition contains additional previously unpublished poems and an Afterword by Eileen Myles

for events please click HERE. For correspondence, or to invite CAConrad to read or conduct workshops, please email CAConrad13@aol.com

(click HERE for the Eileen Myles interview for The Poetry Foundation)

from The Book of Frank (under 3 minutes)


NEW REVIEWS FOR

The Book of Frank

in THE BOSTON REVIEW click HERE

in BOOK FORUM click HERE

in BELIEVER Magazine click HERE

in THE HUFFINGTON POST

at HTML GIANT click HERE

at THE STRANGER click HERE

Chris Vaisvil FRANK ROCK ENSEMBLE

CLICK HERE TO HEAR!

VIDEO OF THE 10/2/10 READING AT KELLY WRITERS HOUSE (VIDEO BY Hannah Van Sciver)

Scotty Leitch's AMAZING punk rock song for The Book of Frank can be heard HERE at Wobbling Roof Magazine

THIS BELOW IS THE COVER OF THE

FIRST CHAPBOOK WITH A HANDFUL

OF THE ORIGINAL POEMS PUBLISHED

IN 1994 BY Insight To Riot Press

Cover art and design by

John Ignarri

DWAINE's AMAZING song for The Book of Frank

click HERE for recording with IDEAS ARE BIRDS

NEW EDITION from WAVE Books coming in fall of 2010, click HERE for details. Copies of the first edition from CHAX Press are still available by clicking HERE.

painting on book cover by Hak Vogrin

CAConrad's The Book of Frank is the recipient of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD, as chosen by Nathaniel Mackey, Myung Mi Kim, Eli Goldblatt, and Charles Alexander. THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD honors the legacy of poet, publisher, and social activist Gil Ott.

SAMPLE POEMS HERE and HERE

ORDER BY CLICKING HERE

Eileen Myles interview for the book HERE
SOME REVIEWS ARE HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE

Frank punk rock song by Scotty Leitch HERE

FOR INFO ON READING EVENTS PLEASE GO HERE

BLURBS ON BACK COVER:

CAConrad's voyeuresque surreal portrait of Frank includes apotheosis, rebirth, talking teapots and hats. It disrupts the landscape as "pins and/zippers of/other days/loosen." CA is very good news as a raconteur, poet, performer and activist and makes news daily with his dedicated Outrider passion and "alternative path" imagination. Onward, as Bob Creeley would say.
                                                                                    —Anne Waldman

I can never have enough CAConrad, like paprika or wisdom in disguise. Is he the Frank of the book?
                                                                                    —Bernadette Mayer

Dancing with a Kafka's ghost, these poems move concretely as CAConrad's protagonist "Frank" delights in the material word gone slightly mad—or is that actual and precise? The poems disturb, are uber-real: horrific, magical, glistening. The questions? Frank persists in them, just is and answers back in an "imaginary vocabulary".
                                                                                    —Hoa Nguyen

The title character in CAConrad's The Book of Frank becomes an adult only after his mother dies, but even as a child he was prone to mystic visions. Now, he makes up movies in his head that people pay to watch from inside his body. He might as well be a poet. In his candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape, CAConrad has written that rarest of poetry books—a gripping page-turner.
                                                                                    —Alan Gilbert

(photo of CAConrad by Marsha Goldberg)

OTHER BOOKS BY CAConrad can be found HERE