Poetry book by Andrea Horowitz
AUGUST 2025 - AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE on Amazon
"Rita Dove once said in an interview with The Paris Review: “bad confessional poetry exclaims ‘Ooh, look at all this blood!’ and good ‘make[s] me bleed as I’m reading.’” What would she say about Andi Horowitz’s poems, which, in this marvelous debut collection, does both? So many are about death and loss: of her mother, father, brother, and several cherished friends. They’re about hard, sticky subjects: terrorist attacks, wars, and the small, everyday tragedies of women and men living desperate lives. They’re about broken friendships and fickle love. Despite the blood on the page, though, the collection is anything but depressing. Andi’s contagious spunk, indignance, and hopeful impetuosity in the face of life’s often cruel vicissitudes shine through in her every image, her every fearless, language-loving line."
- Whitney Fuller, formerly an assistant editor at The Oprah Magazine
Andrea flourishes on splashing bumblebee and ballet slipper-like colors, dripping with emotion to the beat of adverbs and vers, which help her readers feel connected. Together they payve the way through life's puzzles, passions, and heartbreaks until they reach a unique side of the rainbow, where home-churned oreo ice cream is served as dinner.