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Three copies of I Prefer The Forests Making Blankets of Themselves by CAConrad, lying on the branches of an evergreen tree in a triangular formation. The monotype covers feature gold-to-green gradients and darker green horizontal stripes in the shape of one of the poems, as well as black hand-carved linocut lettering.
Three copies of I Prefer The Forests Making Blankets of Themselves by CAConrad, lying on the branches of an evergreen tree in a triangular formation. The monotype covers feature gold-to-green gradients and darker green horizontal stripes in the shape of one of the poems, as well as black hand-carved linocut lettering.
Various parts of the chapbook in their preassembly states: the interior on cream paper is stacked to the left, and several darker green-to-gold gradient covers that do not have text yet are to the right.
A copy of I Prefer The Forests Making Blankets of Themselves by CAConrad, held in my hand among the branches of an evergreen tree.
One of the chapbooks held in my hand open to the center spread, showing two shaped poems. The one on the left begins “Do You Like / Your Species / is my latest / questionnaire[.]” The one on the right begins, “what would it take to / kill the imagination[.]”
Three copies of I Prefer the Forests Making Blankets of Themselves fanned out on some mossy boulders.
The chapbook held in my hand, open to the colophon page with CA’s bio and the book and series info.

I PREFER THE FORESTS MAKING BLANKETS FROM THEMSELVES
CAConrad

$9.00

October 2022
5 x 8 inches |  24 pages

CHOOSE YOUR PRICE FUNDRAISER CHAPBOOK
ALL funds raised go toward more poetry from Bloof. Enormous thanks to CA for their work & perpetual support.

CHOOSE YOUR PRICE: $9–$108. Please type your price into the field below. The following three prices include special perks from CA. Each perk level is limited to the first 9 orders at the specified amount. No other amounts include perks. The minimum price is $9.

  • For $63 receive the chapbook, plus a telephone poetry reading by CA (limited to 9)
  • For $72 receive the chapbook, a telephone poetry reading and tarot reading by CA (limited to 9)
  • For $108 receive the chapbook, a telephone poetry reading and tarot reading by CA, an additional handmade mini chap from CA, and a jar of CA’s homemade vegan bouillon (limited to 9)

UPDATE, March 15, 2023: Perks are sold out, but a few copies are still available! Thank you to everyone who has supported our fundraiser. Thank you, readers, for your incredible support of Bloof’s handmade series. Full series subscriptions are sold out, but you can create your own custom bundle (discounted shipping) with the books that remain!

Handprinted monotype and linocut cover
Caligo Safe-Wash Relief Ink on French Paper Co. Recycled Construction 100 lb. Cardstock
Digitally printed interior on Mohawk Via Recycled Smooth Natural White 70 lb Text
Hand sewn in natural twine

Note: Individually printed by hand in small batches, no two covers will be exactly alike. Expect minor variations in color and placement of elements across the edition.

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).

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), as well as 9 other books of poetry. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, a Believer Magazine Book Award, and the Gil Ott Book Award. Their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

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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

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Author

Rowan, JJ

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