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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nin Andrews |
ISBN: | 1933880147 9781933880143 |
OCLC Number: | 320800788 |
Notes: | Poems. |
Description: | x, 66 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Powerful Magic -- Cleanliness is next to godliness -- Indian Summer -- Being Mean -- Big Foot -- Bathing in Your Brother's Bathwater -- Southern Accent -- The Day Grandma Saw God -- In Grandma's Bathroom -- Snow White -- Gills -- Bzzzz -- What the Dead See -- Calling the snakes -- Lying -- Sundays -- Hiring the One-Armed Man -- Calling the Snakes -- Elvis -- The day the cows got loose -- Spring Fever -- Death Wishes -- Pearls -- Snake bites -- The night Jimmy shot the red fox -- Boston Strangler -- Bees -- The year my sister turned fourteen -- Adolescence -- Why Abortion Doesn't Make Sense -- Summer -- After the snake bit him -- Dance Lessons -- Whenever I asked -- The Past -- Strange birds -- Strange Birds -- Ghosts -- Nonsense -- If you want to learn how to eat properly -- Uncle Dyl's Ghost -- M -- Obituaries -- Maureen -- Something Else -- The Fight -- Bee God -- Southern Comfort. |
Series Title: | Notable voices. |
Responsibility: | Nin Andrews. |
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"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" Read more...

