“Andrea Fry is able to meld the mundane and the profound in an unnerving, even chilling, way that is her own unique gift. With precise detail we see memories of her parents exposed, analyzed, and put on the shelf of the “linen closet” (of “I Have No Firsthand Experience of War”), safely stored but near at hand. Her ability to access and reveal the emotions of her past helps us to find our own ways back home.”

—Peggy Fox, President and Publisher Emerita, New Directions Publishing

"Caution: this book may upend your expectations about what is fit subject matter for poetry. From mothballs to toxic machismo, Fry takes on the perils that lurk in the dark corners of the world and brings them into the light of frank consideration. These poems have their 'arrows of truth' aimed straight at you. They will reshape your thoughts. They may deepen your insights. With larger doses, your imagination may experience an expansion. You may feel yourself craving more and more of the poetic artistry of Andrea L. Fry. You’ve been warned."
~ Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Author of "Letters from Limbo," "Burning of the Three Fires"

“What would turn up if you excavated the foundation of a house that isn’t there anymore? The glitter of old glass bottles and the memories they spill, more fascinating for the mystery of lost-and-found, the sadness and joy of the forgotten unearthed, and the simply strange, unaccounted for by any means but the voices rising from it: this is the landscape of Andrea Fry’s entertaining, humorous, and poignant The Bottle Diggers, as adventurous in its domestic archaeology as any collection you’ve read in years.”
~ Lisa Lewis
Poetry Editor, Cimarron Review