A review by laurelinwonder
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood

4.0

This is one of those collections that I just couldn't put down, and had I not fallen asleep reading yesterday, I would have finished it within the day I began it. I had no idea what I was getting myself into with Lockwood's work, but I can tell you now that I couldn't ever have guessed the absurd & fantastical places one fairly short collection could take me. I think it will be a long time before poems like "Rape Joke" will certainly not leave me for a while. This collection though uncanny, though funny at times, also manages to have some really lovely moments, and draws readers attention to real issues. It's weird, it's poetic, it's raunchy, I liked it a lot.