The Book of Orgasms (Imagination series) (Imagination series) [Paperback]

Nin Andrews (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1880834480 | ISBN-13: 978-1880834480 | Edition: Enlarged 2nd

A series of wry meditations on the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the human and the divine, everyday experience and the limits of bliss, The Book of Orgasms maps the imaginary terrain of the upper realm, the place where euphoria endures. In Nin Andrews' highly original conception, orgasms represent peak moments that take the form of invisible creatures waiting to lift us up into the air, out of the ordinary and into a place just above our heads, just beyond our fingertips. And yet -- curse or blessing -- the gravity of our own desire, the weight of out humanness continually pulls us back from the splendid lightness of euphoria.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"There is no other young writer -- at least on these shores -- whose work even remotely resembles that of Nin Andrews. To find her predecessors one has to look to Europe, to the sly and sometimes erotic zaniness of Luis Bunuel. Nin Andrews' The Book of Orgasms is hilariously Swiftian and eerily surrelist by turns. Talents as orginal as hers are rare --and are exceedingly welcome." --David Wojahn

"What a swell first book this is --sexy, audacious, funny, inventive. Nin Andrews has a deft comic touch that enhances her lyricism. Her commitment to pleasure is a salutary reminder that amusement contains muse. Read this book in bed. I'm sure it will be as good for you as it was for me." --David Lehman

About the Author

Nin Andrews was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and grew up on a farm, the youngest of six children. She studied at Hamilton College and Vermont College. She now lives with her husband, a lawyer and physicist, and her two children in Poland, Ohio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center; Enlarged 2nd edition (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880834480
• ISBN-13: 978-1880834480
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book of Orgasms - Yes. Sex Therapy - No., March 6, 2001

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Mary Beth Shaffer (Milwaukee, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Orgasms (Imagination series) (Imagination series) (Paperback)

If you like this book, you won't want another orgasm book. This is not a sex therapy book or anything remotely like it. It is rather a book of humorous short fiction or prose poems. If you like this book, you might like books such as "Griffin and Sabine" by Nick Bantock, "Invisible Cities" by Calvino or "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler or "View with a Grain of Sand" by Wislawa Szymborska. "The Books of Orgasms" is a book of fantasy, not particularly erotic, but rather more whimsical, with such entries as an interview with an orgasm and an introduction which defines the orgasms as various kinds of poems. "For example," Andrews writes, "there are the lyric orgasms, which express deep feelings for an imagined person. You never know when your passionate, moaning lover is actually having a lyric orgasm. There is the ballad orgasm, which is kept alive orally, the dramatic orgasm, which speaks for itself, and the epic orgasm, a long-winded orgasm in which one lover plays the hero or conqueror and then relishes his victory. Men are often content with the small and discrete haiku orgasms which are said to arouse spiritual insight in a mere matter of syllables." Witty, entertaining, I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in meeting orgasms they would never have imagined.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Favor of Eros, March 20, 2001

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"katejohns" (Azalea Garden (The Thames)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Orgasms (Imagination series) (Imagination series) (Paperback)

Eros is a rose is a rose. This writing is as sexy as a flower's genitalia. Funny, too. Highly recommended for poetry collections as well as for women's studies.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic funny/sad, beautiful poetry., May 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Book of Orgasms (Paperback)

Perverts will be disappointed. In spite of it's title, this is a book about everything EXCEPT the noisy part of orgasm.It's incredibly funny and wild, but there are also poems that are sweet and sad. It's prose-style and there is no mention of DEATH or the SOUL so even die-hard poetry-haters will love this book.