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Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
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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...
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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.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781960145451
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 May 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 70
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About the Author
KeetjeKuipers is the author of four books of poems, all from BOAEditions: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 haveappeared inThe New York Timesand over a hundred other magazines. Keetje iscurrently the Editor ofPoetry Northwest, and teachesat universities and conferences around the world, including at the dual-language writers' gathering Under the Volcanoin Tepoztln, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of the RattlesnakeWilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.
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