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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Nin Andrews: Nin Andrews grew up on a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her BA from Hamilton College, and her MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of numerous books, including Spontaneous Breasts, winner of the Pearl Chapbook Contest; Any Kind of Excuse, winner of the Kent State University chapbook contest; The Book of Orgasms; and the BOA title Sleeping with Houdini, named one of ten best poetry books of 2010 by the Monserrat Review. Her poems and stories appear widely in such places as Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, and elsewhere. Married to Jim Andrews, a physicist and a university professor at Youngstown State University, she lives and writes in Poland, Ohio.
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On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
Julio Vega
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
The Token Man
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
The House Husbands
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
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On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
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On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
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On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
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On the Island where I grew up
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On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
Depilation
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
After Angelina left me
After Angelina left me
Loss
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
My Secret
On the Island where I come from
My Angelina
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
The Woman with the Halo
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I come from
On the Island where I grew up
On the Island where I come from
Notes on the Man Lily
Why God Is a Woman