Balloon Pop Outlaw Black Paperback – October 15, 2012

These poems read like the textual equivalent of "The Persistence of Memory": the realism of what appears melts into sublimely surreal images (for which Lockwood has a unique gift). The poems are a rumination of creativity/the creative process and the power of imagination. In a way, this collection reminds me on one level (tone? exploration of the fantastic?) of the (also very different) prose poems of Calvino's _Invisible Cities_. I think the similarity is rooted in how Lockwood (like Calvino) takes the ordinary, and gives the reader alternate worlds of something quite familiar. Of the entire collection, I liked "The Quickening," "Fig. 1," "The Cartoon's Mother Builds a House in Hammerspace," and "Old Green America Says I Grew a Law Last Night" perhaps the most.

I'm not someone who is normally found reading poetry. But I have carried this book around with me for weeks now, sneaking quick reads from it when I have the chance. It is interesting and different and really makes you wonder what it means. I really enjoy this book a lot and plan to read more Lockwood as soon as possible.

This book does what happens to light when it enters water.

These 16 poems -- particularly the three long prose pieces that are the collection's framework -- teem with imagination. Readers of Lockwood's epic Twitter account have seen how far she can carry an image in 140 characters, but over a hundred pages the cumulative effect is astonishing.

A distinctive poetic voice definitely worth reading.

This book was very fun to read

I bought this book for my husband for Christmas. I love Patricia on Twitter, and was very happy to introduce her amazing wit to him.

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