The Second Sex (Penguin Poets)

The Second Sex (Penguin Poets)

<div><b>A second collection from a poet of "sheer joy and dizzy command" (<i>The New York Times</i>)</b></div><div>SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:</div><div>Slate * Flavorwire * First Things * Coldfront * Books & Culture * The National Post * Lit Genius * Vol. 1 Brooklyn</div><div></div><div></div><div><br>Upon its publication in 2012, <i>Alien vs. Predator,</i> the debut collection by Michael Robbins, became one of the hottest and most celebrated works of poetry in the country, winning acclaim for its startling freshness and originality.</div><div><br> Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, wild, and irrationally exuberant, mashing up high and low culture with "a sky-blue originality of utterance" (<i>The New York Times</i>). The thirty-six new poems in <i>The Second Sex </i>carry over the music, attitude, hilarity, and vulgarity of <i>Alien vs. Predator,</i> while also working deeper autobiographical and political veins.</div>