The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks alm...

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1. Verfasser:	Lockwood, Patricia 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[London] Penguin Books 2018
Schlagworte:	Lockwood, Patricia Poets, American / 21st century / Biography Authors, American / 21st century / Biography Authors, American Poets, American 2000-2099 Biographies Autobiografie
Zusammenfassung:	The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children. Priestdaddy is a story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact
Beschreibung:	Originally published in the US by Riverhead Books 2017
Beschreibung:	336 Seiten 20 cm
ISBN:	9780141984599