Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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,