Southern Comfort

"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)