Southern Comfort
Format:Paperback
Publisher:CavanKerry Press
Published:16th Jan '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"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"
ISBN: 9781933880143
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84 pages