
Tender Hooks
Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 5. July 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-393-32685-7 (ISBN)
Description
Beth Ann Fennelly is fearless in delineating the joys, absorptions, and-yes-jealousies of new motherhood. Having studied motherhood "as if for an exam," reality proved "wilder and deeper and funnier" than anything she'd anticipated.Tender Hooks is Fennelly's spirited exploration of parenting, with all its contradictions and complexities.
Reviews / Votes
"I love this book. Page after page, Fennelly gives us the elan of found language, behind which is a contrarian's passion for finding the true by working against the predictable." Stephen DunnMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-32685-7 (9780393326857)
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Person
Beth Ann Fennelly, poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021, is the author of six books, most recently, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. She lives with her husband and their three children in Oxford, Mississippi.