{"product_id":"lockwood-patricia-motherlandpb","title":"Lockwood, Patricia: Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 27, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell's * The Strand * Barnes \u0026amp; Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.\" - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eColloquial 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?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679352500247,"sku":"9780143126522","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/view_archive_d63b3691-4803-45b8-8aa5-3781b6f00532.jpg?v=1699570794","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/lockwood-patricia-motherlandpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}