A review by mattleesharp
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black by Patricia Lockwood

4.0

God bless Patricia Lockwood for her dizzying pop culture mad lib nightmare brain. God bless Octopus Books for so consistently putting out interesting and worthwhile writing. This collection is wonderful. As one comment below put it, it teaches you how to read it. Patricia Lockwood is its own dialect sometimes and as wonderful as it is, it can also be a little exhausting. Some of these poems feel both rushed out and overwrought where they normally wouldn't because of the general language choices for the collection. But this collection viewed as a whole is still just undeniably impressive.