{"product_id":"last-sext-isbn-9781941040331","title":"Last Sext","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her electric fourth collection, Melissa Broder penetrates the itch of existence and explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of self, the bereavement of love, the destruction of fantasy, the transmutation, even, of our ideas of dying.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's Books We Loved in 2016\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges is an infinite series of false endings—each a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark, as Broder’s fans have come to love.The poems of Melissa Broder pull off a strange and compelling trick: to exist meatily, viscerally, and even bloodily at the center of a void. Holes thump through the pages, blankness crunches bone, zeros growl with hunger. \u003cb\u003eEach line is a little heartbeat hurling down the abyss.\u003c\/b\u003e\n—Patricia Lockwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroder's poems offer a postmodern twist on the confessional, and they push for action in the face of despair.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Broder is absolutely one of the most important poets writing today. \u003cb\u003eHer poems eviscerate the reader with their misty and murky charm,\u003c\/b\u003e with their ability to say what is and not what should be, for their love of life and the sensual, for their knowledge of what it is like to be a person right now. \u003ci\u003eLast Sext \u003c\/i\u003eis a master work, a text of brilliance written in a dusky field, for all of us. 'Can you feel it?' is what it asks us. And we must answer: for chrissakes, of course, yes.\n—Dorothea Lasky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroder has a virtuosic sense of herself and is able to convey, through poetry, the form of her whole mind process. In turn, we see our deepest selves reflected back.—Daniel Lopatin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her fourth poetry collection, Melissa Broder demonstrates just how powerful her existential musings can be. . . . \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Sext \u003c\/i\u003eis carried by longing, fear, and the mystery of mortality - in an absolutely stunning way.\u003c\/b\u003e\n—Large Hearted Boy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroder has built a career on brutally strange, introspective encounters with language. . . [Her] best poems invoke haunting repetition in an almost ballad-like incantation, allowing her lyrics to make \u003cb\u003estunning, unexpected turns of brilliance.\u003c\/b\u003e\n—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[A] provoking collection\u003c\/b\u003e that spews and spits desperation and sensuality.\n—Format Magazine\u003cb\u003eMelissa Broder\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, the essay collection \u003ci\u003eSo Sad Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and four poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eLast Sext\u003c\/i\u003e. Broder has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Elle.com, \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue Italia\u003c\/i\u003e, and The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233323626725,"sku":"NP9781941040331","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781941040331.jpg?v=1767731176","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/last-sext-isbn-9781941040331","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}