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Author(s): Patricia Lockwood

Poetry

The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood.


Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood's second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada?  What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding?  Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn't anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love?  


The steep tilt of Lockwood's lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn.  The poems' subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature.  This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.

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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.

General Fields

  • : 9780141984865
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin Press
  • : 0.084
  • : May 2017
  • : 19.80 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patricia Lockwood
  • : Paperback