{"product_id":"lonely-women-make-good-lovers-9781960145451","title":"Lonely Women Make Good Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe daring and deeply\u003cbr\u003esexy poems in \u003ci\u003eLonely Women Make Good Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e are bold with the\u003cbr\u003eembodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese\u003cbr\u003eunforgettable love poems--queer, complicated, and almost always\u003cbr\u003ecompromised--engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses\u003cbr\u003eof unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question \"defined not by\u003cbr\u003ewhat we \/ cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves.\" These\u003cbr\u003epoems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an \"I\"\u003cbr\u003ethat is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives\u003cbr\u003ewith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ethis book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the\u003cbr\u003efetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and at\u003cbr\u003eothers self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of the\u003cbr\u003edifficulties and joys of living in relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeetje\u003cbr\u003eKuipers\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of poems, all from BOA\u003cbr\u003eEditions: \u003ci\u003eBeautiful in the Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e (2010); \u003ci\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\u003c\/i\u003e (2014); \u003ci\u003eAll Its Charms\u003c\/i\u003e (2019); and \u003ci\u003eLonely Women Make Good Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e (2025). Keetje's poetry and prose have\u003cbr\u003eappeared in The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and over a hundred other magazines. Keetje is\u003cbr\u003ecurrently the Editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches\u003cbr\u003eat universities and conferences around the world, including at the dual-language writers' gathering Under the Volcano\u003cbr\u003ein Tepoztl?n, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of the Rattlesnake\u003cbr\u003eWilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199772819730,"sku":"9781960145451","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lonely-women-make-good-lovers-9781960145451","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}