Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
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Description
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WINNER OF THE ISABELLA GARDNER AWARD The daring and deeply
sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the
embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These
unforgettable love poems--queer, complicated, and almost always
compromised--engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses
of unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question "defined not by
what we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves." These
poems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an "I"
that is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives
with. In
this book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the
fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at
others self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the
difficulties and joys of living in relation.
sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the
embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These
unforgettable love poems--queer, complicated, and almost always
compromised--engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses
of unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question "defined not by
what we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves." These
poems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an "I"
that is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives
with. In
this book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the
fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at
others self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the
difficulties and joys of living in relation.
About the Author
About the Author
Keetje
Kuipers is the author of four books of poems, all from BOA
Editions: Beautiful in the Mouth (2010); The Keys to the Jail (2014); All Its Charms (2019); and Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025). Keetje's poetry and prose have
appeared in The New York Times and over a hundred other magazines. Keetje is
currently the Editor of Poetry Northwest, and teaches
at universities and conferences around the world, including a dual-language writers' gathering Under the Volcano
in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of a Rattlesnake
Wilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.
Kuipers is the author of four books of poems, all from BOA
Editions: Beautiful in the Mouth (2010); The Keys to the Jail (2014); All Its Charms (2019); and Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025). Keetje's poetry and prose have
appeared in The New York Times and over a hundred other magazines. Keetje is
currently the Editor of Poetry Northwest, and teaches
at universities and conferences around the world, including a dual-language writers' gathering Under the Volcano
in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of a Rattlesnake
Wilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Who are 'the bodies/ within that body'? How does
romantic love bring us together-- or isolate, or confound? What if there's a
baby on the way? What if we come to each other naked as birds
in flight, as stripped logs, as old photographs, as pure ideas? What
does a grown-up, clear, thoughtful, emotionally available, gifted lesbian poet
get when-- decades after Adrienne Rich-- she comes up, still wearing her tanks,
and takes her mask off, after the proverbial wreck, and makes 'a pact with the
world, ' with her wife, with their earth and air? Gentle reader, 'gentle
witches, ' webcam watchers who remember the quarantine months and years, mothers
and other parents who remember our biggest children's smallest hours, realists
who want something more, collectors of words like 'poikilothermic' and
'diapause' who wonder if we can 'finally become different people, ' lovers of
ordinary conversational language, doomed scorpions, pet rats, treehouses made
new: this poet is your poet. Here are your poems."--Stephanie
Burt, author of We Are Mermaids and Professor of English at Harvard
University"Keetje
Kuipers' Lonely Women Make
Good Lovers is a staggering,
unpredictable, and inexorable collection. Caught in the nexus of hunger
and ruin, Kuipers' speaker explores the atmosphere between what she knows or
almost knows and what cannot be explained. Recognition of the self, of others,
Kuipers shows us, is a practice. A compelling read, these poems are nimble and
vulnerable, mapping a return to the self, a return to longing, a return to the
archive of what the body remembers."--
Donika Kelly, Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner and author of The
Renunciations
"Keetje Kuipers's poems are daring, formally beautiful, and
driven by rich imagery and startling ideas."--Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate, author of Wade in the Water
romantic love bring us together-- or isolate, or confound? What if there's a
baby on the way? What if we come to each other naked as birds
in flight, as stripped logs, as old photographs, as pure ideas? What
does a grown-up, clear, thoughtful, emotionally available, gifted lesbian poet
get when-- decades after Adrienne Rich-- she comes up, still wearing her tanks,
and takes her mask off, after the proverbial wreck, and makes 'a pact with the
world, ' with her wife, with their earth and air? Gentle reader, 'gentle
witches, ' webcam watchers who remember the quarantine months and years, mothers
and other parents who remember our biggest children's smallest hours, realists
who want something more, collectors of words like 'poikilothermic' and
'diapause' who wonder if we can 'finally become different people, ' lovers of
ordinary conversational language, doomed scorpions, pet rats, treehouses made
new: this poet is your poet. Here are your poems."--Stephanie
Burt, author of We Are Mermaids and Professor of English at Harvard
University"Keetje
Kuipers' Lonely Women Make
Good Lovers is a staggering,
unpredictable, and inexorable collection. Caught in the nexus of hunger
and ruin, Kuipers' speaker explores the atmosphere between what she knows or
almost knows and what cannot be explained. Recognition of the self, of others,
Kuipers shows us, is a practice. A compelling read, these poems are nimble and
vulnerable, mapping a return to the self, a return to longing, a return to the
archive of what the body remembers."--
Donika Kelly, Kate Tufts Discovery Award-winner and author of The
Renunciations
"Keetje Kuipers's poems are daring, formally beautiful, and
driven by rich imagery and startling ideas."--Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate, author of Wade in the Water
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
BOA Editions
Pub date:
2025-04-08
Length:
96 pages
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