Four Winds Press
Music for Orphans
Poems
by Owen Andrews
AVAILABLE SOON in Print and EBOOK:
Available
May 4th,
2027
PROJECT DETAILS
Category: Poetry
Release Date: May 4th, 2027
Print Length: 84 pages
Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
FORMATS
Paperback, $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-940423-23-4
Ebook, $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-940423-24-1
ABOUT THE BOOK
Music for Orphans delivers compelling visions of people living through the human realities of yearning, betrayal, and loss. Story-telling drives many of these poems, inviting readers into vivid renderings of childhood turning points, queer love and desire, the body in flower and in decline, and the mystery and solace of the natural world.
Andrews summons a range of forms, voices, and personae to carry us through the troubled terrain of childhood neglect and abuse and their aftereffects in the toxic values of the American WASPs.
In form and in effect, Andrews’s work resists the fragmentating of consciousness and meaning that suffering so often evokes, offering instead a sense of dry amusement. The poems speak clearly on first reading and reward close attention and re-reading.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Owen Andrews
Owen Andrews studied English and American literature at Harvard College and the University of Virginia. Born near Philadelphia, he spent later childhood in western New York and early adulthood in rural Virginia. A career in publishing, consulting, and higher education has supported his work as a poet. He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
