Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
By (Author) Keetje Kuipers
BOA Editions, Limited
BOA Editions, Limited
16th July 2025
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Poetry
Physical Properties
Hardback
96
Width 152mm, Height 203mm
Description
WINNER OF THE ISABELLA GARDNER AWARD
The daring and deeplysexy poems inLonely Women Make Good Loversare bold with theembodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual.
Theseunforgettable love poems-queer, complicated, and almost alwayscompromised-engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernessesof unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question "defined not bywhat we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves." Thesepoems 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 liveswith.
Inthis book, astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with thefetishization of freedom and the terror of desire. At times valiant and atothers self-excoriating, they are flush with the hard-won knowledge of thedifficulties and joys of living in relation.
Author Bio
KeetjeKuipers(2019); and Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025).and over a hundred other magazines. Keetje iscurrently the Editor ofPoetry Northwest, Her home is in Missoula, Montana, at the foot of a RattlesnakeWilderness. She lives there with her wife and their two children.
