Random Symmetries: The Collected Poems of Tom Andrews (Volume 13) - Softcover

Andrews, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932440924 ISBN 13: 9780932440921

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 2002

Synopsis

This posthumous volume brings together the poems of Tom Andrews, whose untimely death in 2001 cut off a career marked by early achievement and remarkable innovation. It comprises two previously published books, The Brother's Country and The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle, and two unpublished manuscript, closing with two late uncollected poems.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Andrews' previous publications include two books of poetry: _The Brother's Country_, a National Poetry Series winner chosen by Charles Wright, and _The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle_, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. His memoir, _Codeine Diary: True Confessions of a Reckless Hemophiliac_, appeared in 1999. He also edited collections of criticism on two contemporary poets: _On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things_ (1995), and _The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright_ (1995). Tom Andrews died in 2001.

Review

"Tom was singular and luminous, as is his work. The leaves just burst from his fingers. He had that odd stance to the world and its lanugage that made whatever he wrote seem new and just discovered, like treasure hauled up into the sunlight from the ocean floor."

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0932440924
• ISBN 13: 9780932440921
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 276