{"product_id":"motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals-9780141984865","title":"Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The work of a genuine original ... surreal ... funny ... subversive''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if a deer did porn? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? And what would Walt Whitman''s tit-pics \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003elook like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFree-wheeling and surreal yet deadly serious, and including the viral hit ''Rape Joke'' (''An oblique mini-masterpiece''\u003ci\u003e - Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), this book shows one of our most original poets at her virtuosic best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Lockwood has written a book at once \u003cb\u003eangrier, and more fun, more attuned to our times and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get\u003c\/b\u003e''  Stephen Burt, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eLockwood should enter the canon forever\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eher lines left me crying on the subway\u003c\/b\u003e''  Kat Stoeffel, \u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eThe little hairs on my back rose often while reading \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMotherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e. . . That''s biological praise, the most fundamental kind, impossible to fake''  Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe poems in [this] collection ... are the work of a genuine original.\u003c\/b\u003e They are \u003cb\u003esurreal,\u003c\/b\u003e they are \u003cb\u003efunny,\u003c\/b\u003e they are \u003cb\u003esubversive. They do what poetry is meant to do: they make you look at things in a different way\u003c\/b\u003e -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrismatically witty, sexually slippery, polymorphous, and Millennially mischievous poetry \u003c\/b\u003e...  I can see [Lockwood] in my mind, post-religion, post-family, a savvy, wounded poet hanging over an electronic abyss ... \u003cb\u003eCan poetry address the massive and systematic degradation of the mental environment? Lockwood, her personae shimmering, her linguistic sensors tingling, is one of the few poets tough enough and shrewd enough to try\u003c\/b\u003e -- James Parker * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003e[Lockwood] has written a book at once \u003cb\u003eangrier, and more fun, more attuned to our time and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get\u003c\/b\u003e, a book easy to recommend for people who do not read new poetry often - as well as for people who do. -- Stephen Burt * The New York Times Sunday Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe little hairs on my back rose often while reading \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMotherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003c\/i\u003eThat's biological praise, the most fundamental kind, impossible to fake. -- Dwight Garner * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeroically weird\u003c\/b\u003e -- Eryn Loeb * Guernica *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732504523095,"sku":"9780141984865","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141984865.jpg?v=1719997174","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals-9780141984865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}