October 23, 2012
Lisa Hanawalt: Balloon Pop Outlaw Black

lisahanawalt:

I recently illustrated the cover of Patricia Lockwood’s new poetry collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black.

Patricia’s best known for her “sext tweets,” which on their own deserve a genius grant and/or Nobel prize, but she’s also an extraordinary long-form poet.

This book is wild and…

The idea that Lisa Hanawalt did the cover to Tricia Lockwood’s new book is too perfect. I love them both, although I’ve never met Tricia before. But I have marveled at her amazing Twitter, which is hilarious and wild and befuddling and amazing and perfect. I preordered this book on Amazon before I even knew Lisa did the cover, but I was also in knee-jerk I’LL BUY IT mode just at the idea of a Patricia Lockwood book I could own and read whenever I wanted instead of waiting around for her to login to Twitter like a schmuck.

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    Patricia Lockwood! Lisa Hanawalt! puppeyes! !!! I’m fainting
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