Beth Ann Fennelly

Tender Hooks

Poems

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

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.

Beth Ann Fennelly teaches at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford. Her previous book, Open House, won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize and was a Booksense Top Ten poetry pick.

May 2005 / trade paper / ISBN 0-393-32685-3 / 128 pages / POETRY
Original hardcover edition: ISBN 0-393-05862-X