“Priestdaddy” memoir and “Rape Joke” poem by Patricia Lockwood (post 3): Did her being “crazy” for five years include multiple personality's memory gaps?
The poem is discussed with her parents in the memoir (1, pp. 113-116), but they do not address what the poem says:
“It was a year before you told your parents, because he [the rapist] was like a son to them” and she was “crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn’t there…” (2).
1. Patricia Lockwood. Priestdaddy. Memoir. New York, Riverhead Books, 2017.
2. “Rape Joke.” https://www.theawl.com/2013/07/patricia-lockwood-rape-joke/
Aug. 23: I finished the memoir and have nothing to add.
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