Why God Is a Woman
Format:Paperback
Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited
Published:28th May '15
Should be back in stock very soon
Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, with emphasis on publications that have previously published and reviewed Andrews. Specifically targeting Ohio-based media, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, etc. National advertising in Poets & Writers magazine, American Poet magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Blurbs from Denise Duhamel; Christopher Barzak, author of One for Sorrow; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All, The Atlantic 2012. Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,200+ contacts), Twitter (4,000 followers), Instagram, and Pinterest accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcard to announce publication will be sent to Andrews' academic/library contacts (specifically targeting Women's Studies), bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Andrews will send an e-announcement to her personal email lists of several hundred, specifically targeting those interested in women's/gender studies. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 3,000+ contacts. Attendance and possible author signing at AWP Conference in Minneapolis. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media. Promotion through the author's email lists, Facebook and Twitter accounts (@AndrewsNin), and website/blog (http://ninandrewswriter.blogspot.com). Andrews is also a regular participant on Best American Poetry's blog.
Set on a magical island where men are the second sex, story-driven prose poems upset gender-roles, tangling myths and logic.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.
Winner of 2016 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry "Rather than floating the idea down the central current of gender reversal, she forays into side channels, exploring ideas of religion and spirituality, love in the context of power imbalance, puberty and sexual innocence, colonialism, celebrity, empathy. Just when you feel the book has settled into a pattern or rhythm, a strange anomaly confronts you on the next page, a poem that does not carry the flag of the book's theme but runs in a different direction, to a different wind." --Fourth & Sycamore "What amazes me about these prose poems is that they are never gimmicky. Truly, they are believable, painful anecdotes told to us by a male speaker on this Island. I found myself immediately feeling empathy for this speaker, finding some of the poems sad or funny or alarming. But Andrews also forces us to see that her Island is eerily familiar, and that our own notions of gender and identity are indeed sad, funny, alarming, and in desperate need of critique." --Huffington Post "Set on a magical island where women rule and men are the second sex, the world celebrated prose poet Andrews creates is both fantastic and familiar where all the myths, logic, and institutions support the dominance of women." -Publishers Weekly "Nin Andrews' Why God Is a Woman explores a female utopia in which Friedan's 'feminine mystique' would never have had to be contemplated. But on this island in which multiple orgasms, childbirth, and multitasking are prized and rewarded, what will happen to the men who 'are designed for domesticity,' spending countless hours 'preening in front of the bathroom mirror' dreaming of their wedding day, only to be stalked and harassed with predatory women trying 'to get into (their) trousers?' A revolutionary, Andrews writes a social satire that is magical, compassionate, and full of flight--with men and boys being judged by their 'wingspan.' Will God show true compassion? Andrews' Why God Is a Woman is a tour de force by one of America's leading poets." --Denise Duhamel "On the island in Why God Is a Woman not only does every woman look like Angelina Jolie, but they take her name as their own. Men are winged objects of beauty, and those with the widest span are the most sought after. This is a place--and a story--populated by personages like Dolly Delita, world-famous man-trainer, and Julio Vega, the beauty king who was also the first man to run for president. The rules of our world have been inverted within the mirror Nin Andrews holds up for us, and never have we looked more strange and fabulous." --Christopher Barzak "On the island where I grew up--Virginia in the 1960s--mothers told their daughters, 'it's a man's world.' Nin Andrews stands that world on its head, throwing its absurdities into sharp and witty relief. But her poems are for men as well as women, inviting us all to re-imagine love, desire, death, and visions of paradise." --Anne-Marie Slaughter
ISBN: 9781938160615
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 155g
112 pages