Occupation Poet Role Poet Name Patricia Lockwood | Nationality American Language English | |
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Notable works Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals Books Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry | ||
Patricia lockwood
Patricia Lockwood is an American poet and essayist. In addition to her memoir Priestdaddy, she has published two poetry collections and is notable for her trans-genre poetics, including her series of Twitter "sexts" and the prose poem "Rape Joke."
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- Early life
- Career
- Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
- Rape Joke
- Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
- Priestdaddy
- References
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Early life
Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her father Greg Lockwood found religion while serving as a Naval seaman on a nuclear submarine in the Cold War. His conversion first led him to the Lutheran Church, then to its ministry, and finally to Roman Catholicism. In 1984, he asked ordination as a married Catholic priest from then St. Louis Archbishop John May under a special pastoral provision issued by Pope John Paul II in 1980. Lockwood therefore had the unique experience of growing up in a Catholic rectory. Lockwood grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and Cincinnati, Ohio, attending parochial schools there, but never went to college.
Career
"She married at 21, has scarcely ever held a job and, by her telling, seems to have spent her adult life in a Proustian attitude, writing for hours each day from her 'desk-bed,'" according to a profile in The New York Times Magazine. During that period, from 2004 to 2011, Lockwood's poems began to appear widely in magazines including The New Yorker, Poetry, and the London Review of Books.
In 2011, Lockwood joined Twitter and drew attention for her Twitter comedy and poetics, including the "sext" form she originated, her association with the Weird Twitter movement, and her devout following. The Atlantic put Lockwood on its list of "The Best Tweets of All Time"; she was the only author included twice. On January 9, 2014, to honor the anniversary of Lockwood's popular tweet ".@parisreview So is paris any good or not," The Paris Review finally issued a review of Paris.
Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
In 2012, small press Octopus Books published Lockwood's first poetry collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black. The Chicago Tribune praised the work for its "savage intelligence." The collection was included in end-of-year lists by The New Yorker and Pitchfork and became one of the best-selling indie poetry titles of all time. Its cover features original artwork by cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt.
"Rape Joke"
In July 2013, current events website The Awl published Lockwood's prose poem "Rape Joke," which quickly became a viral sensation. The Guardian wrote that the poem "casually reawakened a generation's interest in poetry." The Poetry Foundation declared the poem "world famous." The poem was selected for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2014 and won a Pushcart Prize.
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
In 2014, Penguin Books published Lockwood's second poetry collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. The book's cover features more original artwork by Hanawalt. The New York Times critic Dwight Garner praised the book for its "indelible, dreamlike details." Stephen Burt, writing for The New York Times Book Review, lauded it as "at once angrier, and more fun, more attuned to our time and more bizarre, than most poetry can ever get." The Stranger dubbed Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals "the first true book of poetry to be published in the 21st century." Rolling Stone included Lockwood and the book on its 2014 Hot List and the New York Times named it a Notable Book.
Priestdaddy
Riverhead Books published Lockwood's memoir Priestdaddy in May 2017.