Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Penguin Poets)

[The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood €“ a New York Times Notable Book.

SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: 
The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell's * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire

Look out for Lockwood€s  memoir, Priestdaddy, coming in May 2017

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.]]>