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...

Poetry. Titles include: When We Move Away from Here, You'll See a Clean Square of Paper Where His Picture Hung, The Cartoon's Mother Builds a House in Hammerspace, The Front Half and the Back Half of a Horse in Conversation, ...