Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood (born April 27, 1982 in Fort Wayne ) is an American writer. She became known through a series of sexts on Twitter and the poem Rape Joke .
Life
Patricia Lockwood grew up in St. Louis and Cincinnati , her father was a professional soldier in the US Navy . He had religious revival experiences several times and eventually became a priest of the Catholic Church. Patricia Lockwood attended community schools but no college and married journalist Jason Kendall at the age of 21 in Savannah, Georgia . She writes poems that have appeared in magazines since 2004, including The New Yorker , Poetry and London Review of Books .
Her first collection of poems was published in 2012 by the independent publisher Octopus Books under the title Balloon Pop Outlaw Black . The book sold well and appeared on the New York Times annual top list . In 2014 Penguin Books brought out the second collection of poems Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals , this book also had a cover illustration by the graphic artist Lisa Hanawalt .
Lockwood has been tweeting since 2011, she invented the sexts , poetic and at the same time suggestive short texts, and received a lot of attention for her tweets. She won a Pushcart Prize in 2013 for her poem Rape Joke , which was published by the online magazine The Awl and follows on from the affair surrounding Daniel Tosh 's unsuccessful comedy appearance.
In 2017, Priestdaddy Lockwood's autobiographical prose volume was published , for which she was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2018 .
Works (selection)
- Balloon Pop Outlaw Black . Octopus Books, Portland 2012
- Patricia Lockwood, “Rape Joke” at: The Awl, July 25, 2013
- Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals . Penguin Books, 2014
- Priest daddy . Riverhead Books, New York 2017
- Lost in Trumplandia It's his country now - we just vote in it . in: The New Republic , 247, no.4991, (2016): p. 28
literature
- Suzi Feay: Do not post this on the internet . Review, in: Financial Times , April 22, 2017, p. 9.
- Kate Kellaway: Patricia Lockwood: 'I'm a show-off, a clown' , Interview, in: The Guardian , April 30, 2017.
- Adam Plunkett : Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry , review, in: The New Yorker , May 29, 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Patricia Lockwood in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Brian Droitcour: Sexts from Patricia Lockwood , January 24, 2012, on Rhizome (selection of 34 sexts)
- Jesse Lichtenstein: The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas , In: The New York Times Magazine , May 28, 2014
- Kate Tuttle: Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir . Review, in: Los Angeles Times , April 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ The New Yorker; Poetry Pick: The Art of Sexting , in: The New Yorker , January 24, 2012
- ↑ Patricia Lockwood's Sext Poems Will Make You LOL , on the Huffington Post , Jan. 24, 2012
- ↑ Patricia Lockwood Sexts the Body Electric , on Public Radio International and WNYC , August 22, 2014. There three sexts and a bonus track: Patricia Lockwood reads “Rape Joke” .
- ↑ Viv Groskop : Rape Joke: what is Patricia Lockwood's poem really saying? in: The Guardian , July 26, 2013
- ↑ Kate Tuttle: Patricia Lockwood likes to write in bed. 'Priestdaddy' is her memoir . Review, in: Los Angeles Times , April 28, 2017
- Jump up ↑ Priestdaddy at WorldCat on the blurb
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lockwood, Patricia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Wayne |