An Honest Answer

By Ginger Andrews

Book Overview

"The presiding spirit behind Ginger Andrews first book, An Honest Answer, must be William Carlos Williams. When he said he wrote in the speech of Polish mothers, he could have included the American... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885266782
• ISBN13: 9781885266781
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A book I want to share

I've given and will continue to give this book as a gift to my best friends. Ginger Andrews speaks volumes in so few words. Her poems make me cry, laugh and everything in between. God bless you, Ginger Andrews! Your words touch my heart in a very special way.

A Cleaning Woman and a Genius

Garrison Keillor has read poems from this collection 10 times (!) on The Writer's Almanac, and as many of us know, Mr. Keillor knows what he's talking about. Ginger Andrews sounds like no one else. Her poems are artful yet seem unadorned. Her compassion is compelling. A true artist.

A first-class read for poetry buffs

An Honest Answer is an intense, personal collection of original free-verse poetry by Ginger Andrews. The thoughtful and vividly expressed ideas combined with the impressionistic language have rightfully earned An Honest Answer the 12 Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. An Honest Answer is a first-class read for poetry buffs. ReClassified: WWII took just about any man,/but Dad couldn't see to good/out of one eye, was blind in the other,/had high blood pressure/three kids and a wife.//They bused him/from Jefferson Barracks in Saint Louis/back home to Gideon/where he worked at a box factory/making just enough money to feed his family/and keep a roof over our heads,...

A Strangely Familiar, Funny, and Moving Book

I could not stop reading this book of poems until I had reached the last page. The book has such a feeling of inevitability about it--as if, "yes, that is exactly right"--and yet the world it depicts is at the same time surprising, previously obscure but now illuminated. The poems are individually brilliant, but the book works best as a narrative of this working class woman, her sister, her dying father, her marriage, her sons, and her memories. I have not been so engrossed in a book of poems since I picked up collections of Sylvia Plath or Robert Lowell. Andrews's vision is so unpretentious and yet so perfect.

WOW! A must have for all Poets!

If you are a fan of poetry then you will love An Honest Answer. It deals with real life situations and pulls no punches.