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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014)

by Patricia Lockwood(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0143126520 (ISBN13: 9780143126522)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: This book is/was/will be important. If you are reading this, read it. It speaks for itself in all kinds of strange ways and will challenge you and upset you and make you put it down and occasionally gasp at moments of clarity in the absurdity and the cartoonishness that approaches near heartbreaking emotional honesty. If you are an intellectual-broy-dude type (e.g., Adam Plunkett of the New Yorker) you will defensively read it out of obligation and feel threatened/insulted and then threaten/insult the intelligence of Lockwood and readers by panning it in your insightful review, but you will mention how "Rape Joke" was actually "really the best poem here," almost as if you missed that part (or didn't REALLY care to read): "The rape joke is that if you write a poem called Ra... morepe Joke, you're asking/for it to become the only thing people remember about you." There's more here to remember, a lot more.
review 2: Lovechild of James Tate and Jenny Zhang. James Tate re-fanged and casually vicious, with a pinch of Jenny Zhang's perverse humor. Whether it's your thing or not, you can't help but get excited about poetry that acts, and if it sometimes falls short and settles for a facile punchline, that's still more than Billy Collins does on his best day. People toss around the word irreverent, but it's comforting that Lockwood genuinely doesn't seem to be performing for anyone. If anything her narration seems pissed off that you're asking so many goddamn questions. less

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