Kore of the Incantation, Brooke Elise Axtell
Axtell’s stunning poetry leaves you breathless as she fills
you full of declarations, like her opening to “Mannequin Girl Gone Wild”: “it
turns out I am not just for show./ The mannequin becomes a woman, bashing the
window,/hitting the streets like a vagabond princess.” Axtell lures you in with
her “border girls” and “Snake Charmer,” but her masterpiece is “The Goddess
Cycle,” a sequence of poems exploring goddesses in the modern world.
The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle
A novel depicting the inner circle of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the
real-life scientist who studied American sexuality and published his results in
the 50s and 60s through the eyes of an underling. Boyle explores the fantasies,
dreams, realities, and fears of his characters with subtlety and insight.
Witnessing the forward-thinking Kinsey in his natural, pre-sexual revolution
America makes the reader realize how truly extraordinary his work was.
George and Martha,
Karen Finley
A delicious dose of fantasy where George W. Bush and Martha
Stewart meet for sex in a hotel room. The most magical thing about this petite
book is that Karen Finley manages to make real people out of these two people.
And the only thing wilder than their relationship is the drawings that
accompany the story.
The Better Sex Guide to Extraordinary Lovemaking, from the
Sinclair Institute
If The Joy of Sex
belongs to the 20th century, than this tome belongs to the 21st.
The guide takes you through the
human sexual-response cycle (desire, arousal, orgasm) in encyclopedic detail.
And while some of the chapters are tried and true (touch, oral, 10 ten sex
positions), there are some that are perfect for a post-Sex in the City world (sex toys, fetishes, anal sex).
