The Last Orgasm

Nin Andrews' poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, and four editions of Best American Poetry. The author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, she has won two Ohio individual artist grants, the Pearl Chapbook Contest, the Kent State University chapbook contest, the Gerald Cable Poetry Award, and the Ohioana Prize for poetry. She is also the editor of a book of translations of the Belgian poet, Henri Michaux, Someone Wants to Steal My Name. She lives on a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband, cows, coyotes, and many bears.

"The Last Orgasm: a collection or wry and fantastical, spiritual, feminist meditations on sexuality, love, desire, and the end of desire."--

PrefacePart 1: Anecdotes of the OrgasmThe orgasm has been contemplating the title, The Last OrgasmThe orgasm is afraid you have forgotten herThe orgasm wants to be famousThe orgasm decides to learn about social mediaThe orgasm wants to open a Twitter accountThe orgasm decides she must become a brandThe orgasm is building a websiteThe orgasm is not sure about the About Me pageThe orgasm needs a photo of herselfOne day the orgasm decides to give up on social mediaThe orgasm thinks that people might prefer poodlesThe orgasm grows sadThe orgasm reads a book of recipesThe orgasm decides to become a poetWrite about yourselfThe orgasm falls in love with her writing professorSometimes I feel so inspiredThe orgasm wants to write a memoirThe Orgasm Writes a Short Biography of NinPart 2: Anecdotes of NinLast NightSoul MateThe Banned OrgasmMy Mother's AdviceThe VisionsThe Truth about Our Lady of the OrgasmThe Accidental OrgasmThe Orgasm and MeHerThe Three OrgasmsThe Shadow of the OrgasmThe year I suffered from SADRemembering my ExSpiritual Advice from the OrgasmOne Day I Tried Out a Healing CeremonyThe orgasm convince me I need her after allOde to an OrgasmIf the Orgasm Were a PoemPart 3: Nin and INin and II'm a Depressed OrgasmAdvice from the OrgasmLetter to NinNot Having an OrgasmThe Golden NuggetFour Stories about NinWhat I Keep Telling NinThe Curse of the OrgasmHer SecretIfSong of the OrgasmIn the Supermarket of OrgasmsBlack Dress on a White CarpetIf I called out your name, would you answer?A Simple Fact that Few Really KnowThe Orgasm and the Magic MaidThe Orgasm BluesPart 4: The Last OrgasmA Certain AngelThe Night the Orgasm VanishedOrgasmThe Innocent Lives of OrgasmsThe Last OrgasmLike GodThe orgasm thinks of writing a spiritual treatiseThe Burning HouseThe EndIn MemoriumEven in the AfterlifeAnother Way of Looking a the OrgasmThe Afterward or Reflections on "The Instruction Manual"The Definition of Postmodernism and a Response to Critics of the The Last Orgasm