Priestdaddy a Memoir by The New York (Paperback)

Priestdaddy a Memoir by The New York (Paperback)

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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 arnings of impending danger.

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• 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
• When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing
• Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable 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
• Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest
• Her debut collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black , was released in 2012 by Octopus Books; her second collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals , was published by Penguin Books in 2017
• Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker , The London Review of Books , Tin House and Poetry , and her writing on politics and literature has appeared in New Republic Product Details

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