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In the voice of three characters, Miss August tells the story of
two friends growing up in Virginia during a time when Massive
Resistance to integration causes public schools to close and
private white-only academies to open. It s a portrait of family and
cultural dysfunction, and racism in a specific time and place in
American history.
Nin Andrews is arguably the leading female voice in American prose
poetry. In a 2005 feature on Andrews in Moby Lives, Denise Duhamel
wrote, Nin Andrews is a complete original. Gender-bending and
genre-blurring, Andrews is a fabulous fabulist. . . . Her work is
always surprising, sharp and wild. In Sleeping with Houdini,
Andrews speaks as a little girl who wishes she could vanish at
will, just as Houdini did. As she grows, Houdini becomes a personal
icon, a magical being, a muse, an ultimate lover, and a metaphor
for longing. Nin Andrews is author of the highly acclaimed The Book
of Orgasms and other collections.
Why God Is a Woman is a collection of poems written about a magical
island where women rule and men are the second sex. It is also the
story of a boy who, exiled from the island because he could not
abide by its sexist laws, looks back with both nostalgia and
bitterness and wonders: Why does God have to be a woman? Celebrated
prose poet Nin Andrews creates a world both fantastic and familiar
where all the myths, logic, and institutions support the dominance
of women. Nin Andrews's books include The Book of Orgasms and
Sleeping with Houdini.
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MiPOesias (Paperback)
Editor Nin Andrews
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"Nin Andrews explodes the iconography of our childhoods as she
creates a new series of Dick and Jane readers--this time earmarked
for adults who desperately need a vocabulary for a different time.
With edgy humor and deep understanding of the shadows we all cast,
she gives us a Dick and Jane we can't resist. The bizarre nature of
the world she creates is what initially draws us in, but what keeps
us there is our growing knowledge that it's our world too." --
Joyce Dyer
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