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Lockwood's world is full of potholes and long rhythms, but it's most satisfying when the ideas are big enough to make the punch lines irrelevant.

There's an elasticity to the work, the kind a cartoon body displays when turned into an accordion by a plummeting anvil. One of the best debuts of the year.

There's a savage intelligence at work in this debut collection of poems. ... Lockwood's loping lines follow a Disney dream logic and dance like enchanted mops.

Equally rigorous and insane. ... It invokes something nameless about why we try to create things, how those things we create feel about us, and the bizarre architectures in between.