Tom Andrews

Who was Tom Andrews?

Tom Andrews was an American poet and critic. Life

He grew up in West Virginia. He got into the Guinness Book of Records at the age of eleven by clapping for fourteen hours and thirty one minutes. He also got into the National Enquirer for doing this. He had dreams of being a stand up comedian. He raced motocross as a teenager, but he stopped when he found out he had hemophilia. He had a major accident on an icy sidewalk that put him in the hospital for many weeks. He was bleeding from inside his joints which meant he had to have factor VIII blood transfusions.

He worked as a copy editor for Mathematical Review which is a bibliographic journal for mathematics, physicist,statisticians, logician, historian and philosophers of mathematics. Not only did he write poetry, he also wrote essays as well as memoirs. Schooling He graduated from Hope College and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A. Death

He died while he was on a Trip to England due to complications of his hemophilia. He was forty years old. Praise for Tom Andrews:

Poet Jean Valentine said "He is a true poet, loving, tough, ecstatic" Guy Davenport, one of the country's most powerful critics said "These are not poems about illness. They are about the dominion of the spirit when it is rich in imagination and courage"