Everyone is talking about Patricia Lockwood, and they should be. Her second collection of poems, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, is full of sex, animals, geography, and lines so bizarrely funny they make you swallow wrong and cough. Lockwood makes poetry feel like a real thing again, like something more important than whatever is on HBO. You should get the book and read it all at once, then do it again slowly.
In the meantime, 14 of the 31 poems in Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals are online, and we have rounded them up for you.
Search “Lizard Vagina” and You Shall Find
When the World was Ten Years Old
He Marries the Stuffed Owl Exhibit
An Animorph Enters the Doggie-Dog World:
Nessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It
Last of the Late Great Gorilla-Suit Actors
Factories Are Everywhere in Poetry Right Now
See a Furious Waterfall Without Water
Love Poem Like We Used to Write It
The Hornet Mascot Falls in Love
The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks
Plus a few older poems on Patricia Lockwood’s Wikipedia page
And a bonus recording of her latest poem, “What is the Zoo for What”:
https://soundcloud.com/the-dinner-party/patricia-lockwood-what-is-the-zoo-for-what
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