A breathtaking collection from one of today's boldest and most adventurous poets.
Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. Her debut collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, was released in 2012 by Octopus Books; a selection of her poetry was included in Penguin Modern Poets 2- Controlled Explosions (2016), and her memoir, Priestdaddy, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2017. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Tin House and Poetry.
The poems in [this] collection ... are the work of a genuine
original. They are surreal, they are funny, they are subversive.
They do what poetry is meant to do: they make you look at things in
a different way
*Sunday Times*
Prismatically witty, sexually slippery, polymorphous, and
Millennially mischievous poetry ... I can see [Lockwood] in my
mind, post-religion, post-family, a savvy, wounded poet hanging
over an electronic abyss ... Can poetry address the massive and
systematic degradation of the mental environment? Lockwood, her
personae shimmering, her linguistic sensors tingling, is one of the
few poets tough enough and shrewd enough to try
*The Atlantic*
[Lockwood] has written a book at once angrier, and more fun, more
attuned to our time and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever
get, a book easy to recommend for people who do not read new poetry
often - as well as for people who do.
*The New York Times Sunday Book Review*
The little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland
Fatherland Homelandsexuals ... That's biological praise, the most
fundamental kind, impossible to fake.
*The New York Times*
Heroically weird
*Guernica*
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