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Son of a Bird is a provocative encounter of girlhood, farm life and longing, hauntings and huntings, the self's instability, and the place where desire and the strange/unusual/unconventional/ meet. Son of a Bird is a memoir in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Flannery O'Connor. Surrounded by farm hands and wild, lush isolation, due to constant eye surgeries, the youngest of six children, Nin Andrews observes the world at a tilt. In this collection of prose poems, hunted by death and the brutalities of farm life, Andrews begins to connect the small black dots of her upbringing--her father's relationships with men, her mother's autism, and the burdens of childhood awakenings--ultimately cracking through the shadows that haunt her.
About the author
Nin Andrews is the author of the six chapbooks and ten full-length poetry collections including,
The Last Orgasm (2020), Miss August (2017), and
Why God is a Woman (2015). She is the recipient of two Ohio individual artists grants, the Pearl Chapbook prize, The Kent State University Chapbook contest, and the Gerald Cable Award. Her book,
Southern Comfort, was a finalist for the Forward Prize for Poetry 2010, and her collection,
Why God is a Woman won the Ohiona Prize for Poetry in 2016. Her work has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies including
Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, four editions of
Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, and
The Best American Erotic Poems. Known as the queen of orgasms, her erotic poetry has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague and anthologized in the England, Australia, and Mongolia. She is also the editor of a book of translations of the Belgian writer, Henri Michaux.
