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The Beach Where All Babies Are Born | Patricia Lockwood | The New York Review of Books
We mailed ourselves the moonstones home.Ten pounds of them, a private beachThat cuts and cuts and cuts the feet.Where all babies are born, but not any of
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n14/patricia-lockwood/where-be-your-jibes-now
Patricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now? David Foster Wallace
Jul 11, 2023 - We knew he was not benevolent exactly (well, some of us knew) but there was the sense that he was suffering on the same...
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/patricia-lockwood/garnets
Patricia Lockwood · Poem: ‘Garnets’
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/patricia-lockwood/malfunctioning-sex-robot
Patricia Lockwood · Malfunctioning Sex Robot: Updike Redux
Sep 24, 2025 - When he is in flight you are glad to be alive. When he comes down wrong – which is often – you feel the sickening...
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/patricia-lockwood/supersensual-ear?ref=upstract.com
Patricia Lockwood · Supersensual Ear: Willa Cather’s Substance
Mar 27, 2026 - ‘The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced,’...
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https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/patricia-lockwood-reads-elizabeth-bishop
Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop | The New Yorker
Dec 22, 2025 - On The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, the poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like...
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/patricia-lockwood/diary
Patricia Lockwood · Diary: When I Met the Pope
Jul 23, 2025 - The invitation said ‘black dress for Ladies’. ‘You’re not allowed to be whiter than him,’ my husband, Jason...
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/patricia-lockwood/supersensual-ear
Patricia Lockwood · Supersensual Ear: Willa Cather’s Substance
Mar 27, 2026 - ‘The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced,’...
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/patricia-lockwood/arrayed-in-shining-scales
Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
Oct 14, 2025 - I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
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Patricia Lockwood | The New York Review of Books
Patricia Lockwood is the author of six books, including the poetry collection Agate Head/Stone Soup, which will be published in October.
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