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by Melissa Broder (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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In 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.

One of the New Yorker's Books We Loved in 2016

What 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.

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"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. Each line is a little heartbeat hurling down the abyss."
― Patricia Lockwood

"Broder's poems offer a postmodern twist on the confessional, and they push for action in the face of despair."
― Publishers Weekly

"Melissa Broder is absolutely one of the most important poets writing today. Her poems eviscerate the reader with their misty and murky charm, 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. Last Sext is 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."
― Dorothea Lasky

"Broder 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

"With her fourth poetry collection, Melissa Broder demonstrates just how powerful her existential musings can be. . . . Last Sext is carried by longing, fear, and the mystery of mortality - in an absolutely stunning way."
― Large Hearted Boy

"Broder 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 stunning, unexpected turns of brilliance."
― Booklist

"[A] provoking collection that spews and spits desperation and sensuality."
― Format Magazine --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0184I6AAS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tin House Books (June 14, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 819 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
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- #301 in Poetry About Death
- #426 in Poetry About Love
- #488 in Contemporary Poetry

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Melissa Broder is the author of the novels MILK FED (February 2021) and THE PISCES, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY, and five collections of poems including LAST SEXT and the forthcoming SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems.

She lives in Los Angeles.

www.melissabroder.com

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Lolol

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019

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Melissa, girl, sis. I loved the Pisces and So Sad Today. You immediately became my favorite writer. This book of poetry though, isn’t a reflection of how capable you are as a writer. I did not enjoy this work at all. I didn’t know what the hell I was looking for between the lines. It felt like I was reading unrelated dreams that you mashed together in an attempt to make sense of their meaning but could not. But I do appreciate that it isn’t a collection of fake deep self help statements like most contemporary poems on instagram. Youre still my fav. I’m still going to read all of your other stuff. Youve enriched my life for the most part.

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Andrea

Buy all of her books

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

Amazing author

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2017

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Love her books. Came fast

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Sad poems

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017

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My 17 yr old daughter was disappointed with this book, she prefers Melissa Broder' s other books to this one. As a parent, I was saddened by what our society now considers " brilliant". Do hard drugs, write while you are high, and become famous. What happens afterwards? Smh

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Bri (readingknitter)

I found her stand alone tweets to be superior to the essays so I thought that I wanted ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

I first became a fan of the author through her Twitter account @sosadtoday and delved into the personal essay collection of the same name. I found her stand alone tweets to be superior to the essays so I thought that I wanted to dive into her poems which is where Broder excels. While I really liked some of these poems (and I'm not a frequent reader of poetry collections), I also didn't like some, as to be expected with any collection.

My favorite poem was Broken Ocean.

But then the water grows dark and recedes
I guess it is self-protection
To imagine the part where the water grows dark and recedes
I guess
I need a jumping-off point to this image
Love is the jumping-off point to this image
But love isn't even the water
Real love is the light
Don't you know that yet?
The water is something else
As anything that grows dark and recedes
Is something else not love
Fine then I don't want love
Fine then I don't want love
I want the water

I also really enjoyed the poem Litter where Broder compares feelings to dogs that you can either tend to or ignore as they feed themselves. She returns to the idea of feelings being dogs a few more times, making those poems hit harder than they would have otherwise.

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Daniel Casey

Broder is a profoundly good poet able to write in a manner that’s immediately ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2016

Broder is a profoundly good poet able to write in a manner that’s immediately accessible, endearing and off-putting as well as familiar and bizarre.

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brokenthoughts

Incredible collection of poetry.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2017

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Poetry is all about words from emotions...raw and uncensored, touching on all subjects and feelings. It doesn't need to be pretty or refined, it just needs to move you. Last Sext is an outstanding collection of pure poetry that does this. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't...but all of it is written with passion and absolute skill.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2018

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