Tender Hooks - Poems

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.

About the author

Beth Ann Fennelly was the poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with her husband and their three children.

Summary

A fearless delineation of the joys, absorptions, and—yes—jealousies of new motherhood.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Ann Fennelly, Fennelly Beth Ann
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393326857
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32685-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 163 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets