What an underhand
gift for an elsewhere to give, a door
that reminds you you can leave it.
–Patricia Lockwood, Poetry, April 2012
Lockwood’s poem “Rape Joke” is making the internet rounds. She first appeared in our pages in February 2011.
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
97WHAT IS POETRY. CAN SOMETHING THAT IS NOT POETRY … BE POETRY. IF IT IS POETRY, CAN IT NOT BE POETRY? In this interview I will answer the question so good that no one needs to answer it ever again! We will lay it to rest like a little baby … who … is dead.
Patricia Lockwood, interviewed by HTMLGIANT. (via millionsmillions)
“words
inch along our wires: text text text stop, text text text stop.”
—Patricia Lockwood, Poetry, February 2011
(Source: millionsmillions)
