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Book

Motherland, fatherland, homelandsexuals

Call Number

  • 811 L817 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Physical Description

66 pages ; 23 cm.

Summary

"A breathtaking new collection from one of today's boldest and most adventurous poets; Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood's second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? 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? What would Walt Whitman's tit-pics look like? 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. "--

Contents

  • Is your country a he or she in your mouth
  • Search "lizard vagina" and you shall find
  • The whole world gets together and gangbangs a deer
  • He marries the stuffed-owl exhibit
  • An animorph enters the doggie-dog world
  • The Hatfields and McCoys
  • The arch
  • When the world was ten years old
  • List of cross-dressing soldiers
  • The hunt for a newborn Gary
  • The fake tears of Shirley Temple
  • A recent transformation tries to climb the stairs
  • The feeling of needing a pen
  • Nessie wants to watch herself doing it
  • Bedbugs conspire to keep me from greatness
  • Last of the late great gorilla-suit actors
  • Factories are everywhere in poetry right now
  • Revealing nature photographs
  • See a furious waterfall without water
  • Love poem like we used to write it
  • Why haven't you written
  • Rape joke
  • The hornet mascot falls in love
  • The descent of the dunk
  • The third power
  • Natural dialogue grows in the woods
  • The brave little _____ goes to school
  • There were no new colors for years
  • Perfect little mouthfuls
  • The father and mother of American tit-pics
  • The hypno-domme speaks, and speaks and speaks.

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