Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Poets, Penguin)
Starred review. "With her second collection, Lockwood (Balloon Pop Outlaw Black) continues to develop a poetics that interrogates those categories to which societies pledge allegiance: nation, gender, nature, and sexuality. Nothing is off limits here and often the poems' responses to their subjects -- whether natural, political, or epistemological -- are a fumbling, projective sexual ecstasy. ... Lockwood's poems register the full force of what they deliver and yet admirably refuse to see that as a reason to back away." -- Publishers Weekly"Patricia Lockwood's Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals is a collection of wildly original poems: obscene, sharp, and funny. ... The whole collection is unforgettable, literally: once read, it cannot be forgotten."-- NPR"Most of her best lines are wildly unprintable here. ... The little hairs on my back rose often while readingMotherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, as if it were the year of the big wind. That's biological praise, the most fundamental kind, impossible to fake." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Lockwood has written a book at once angrier, and more fun, more attuned to our time and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get." -- Stephen Burt,The New York Times Book Review"Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals gave me the peculiar feeling that I was reading the first true book of poetry to be published in the 21st century. ... Walt Whitman scoured the American dream for inspiration, Emily Dickinson turned her eyes inside and strip-mined the rich veins of her loneliness, and Lockwood scans the internet's gaudy vistas and sinister canyons." -- Paul Constant,The Stranger