Southern Comfort
Published on 16. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-1-933880-14-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of linked poems, Andrews describes a childhood during the Vietnam War era on a farm in a divided household with a southern father and northern mother. The memories and trials of childhood come from a fabled place where whiskey and story were shared by children, and superstitions and mythmaking were a way of life.
Reviews / Votes
"Southern Comfort reads like a poetic memoir doled out anecdote by anecdote, each one tinged with an awareness of the unspoken - the underlying ambivalence, shame and desperation common to too many of our childhoods. Long-time fans of Andrews' daring and inventive poetry will discover a different side to her aesthetic in this thoroughly compelling and moving book." MARK COX "Southern Comfort has all the essential ingredients: grandmas, biscuits, snakes, stringed instruments, a boy named Jimmy, ghosts, and the Lord. Andrews turns her wickedly accurate imagination on these details and alchemizes them into a poetry of mythic proportions in this deeply funny, deeply intelligent, truly southern book." MAGGIE ANDERSON"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fort Lee
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-933880-14-3 (9781933880143)
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Person
NIN ANDREWS has authored several books, among them Spontaneous Breasts, The Book of Orgasms, Mid-Life Crisis with Dick and Jane, and Sleeping with Houdini. She is the recipient of many awards and has been published in numerous journals and anthologies.