num_pages: 80
description: [ The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood  a New York Times Notable Book.SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell's * The Strand * Barnes &amp; Noble * BuzzFeed * FlavorwireLook out for Lockwoods memoir Priestdaddy  coming in May 2017Colloquial and incantatory the poems in Patricia Lockwoods second collection address the most urgent questions of our time 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 isnt anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwoods 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.]]&gt;
language: English
title: Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
publisher: Penguin Books