"The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form. . . . Conrad must be one of the most original practitioners of poetry forging new territory

"This mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad

A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.

Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action.

Part psychedelic road-trip travelogue, part Overheard in Graceland, part mystic-religious devotional, CAConrad's unabated love for the King puts him on a pilgri