'The work of a genuine original...surreal...funny...subversive'Sunday TimesWhat if a deer did porn Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit And what would Walt Whitman's tit-pics really look likeFree-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious,and including the viral hit'Rape Joke'('An oblique mini-masterpiece' - Guardian),this book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.'Lockwood has written a book at once angrier,and more fun,more attuned to our times and more bizarre,than most poetry can ever get'Stephen Burt,The New York Times Book Review,Books of the Year'Lockwood should enter the canon forever...her lines left me crying on the subway'Kat Stoeffel,The Cut'The little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals ...That's biological praise,the most fundamental kind,impossible to fake'Dwight Garner,The New York Times
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141984865Number of pages: 80Weight: 82 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 5 mm
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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 wayPrismatically 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(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 little hairs on my back rose often while reading Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals...That's biological praise,the most fundamental kind,impossible to fake.Heroically weird
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