Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

Keetje Kuipers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

70 Seiten

2025
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-960145-45-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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 at the dual-language writers’ gathering Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.

With Garbo in Palm Springs

At Forty, the Mountains Are More Green

Lonely women make good lovers,

Getting Back Together

The Magician at the Woodpile

Bleeding

At My Daughter’s Riding Lesson

Spa Days

I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know

In the Outdoor Shower with My Pregnant Wife

Cremello Horse

I wasn’t trying to steal her boyfriend,

Sehnsucht

Poikilothermic

Love Letter to a Friend I Cannot Reach

I, too, took pictures of my body

Brace Cove

Emesis

I Let Her Let Them

The day after your mom dies, I go to see the witches,

The Wound

Boat Puller / Bird Woman / Madame Charbonneau

Walking Lessons

Pregnant Girl Creek

Washing My Daughter’s Clothes

Selfishness

My Mother Bought Me a Scarf

Interview

Crossing

Live Webcam: Ponte delle Guglie, Venice; March 2020

Multi-Generational Household

Eating Sea Urchin

At Our Hotel Under the Volcano

Meat

Summer, Again

Season Finale

3,000 Miles Away from Home

Diapause

Eating an Orange Before Getting Out of the Swimming Pool

Googling My Ex

Greek Chorus

The Rats

Now that we’ve been married all these years,

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-960145-45-2 / 1960145452
ISBN-13	978-1-960145-45-1 / 9781960145451
Zustand	Neuware