A review by nwordsmith
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood

1.0

Although I have really enjoyed Lockwood’s prose in the past and was excited for this book, I had a hard time connecting to this collection of poetry. It felt overly contrived and inaccessible to the point of being intentionally profound and meant to make readers hate poetry. I don’t hate poetry but I certainly did not enjoy this book. There wasn’t a single poem in the collection that I would want to read again. I did find several turns of phrases and lines within the poems meaningful but it largely felt like a chore to read this rather than any sort of pleasure.