Send Me Into A Different Ending & Other Poems Paperback – August 6, 2025

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 Read more