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Tender hooks : poems / Beth Ann Fennelly.
Title:
Tender hooks : poems / Beth Ann Fennelly.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Edition.
Publication:
New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]
Publication Date:
2004
ISBN:
9780393058628

9780393326857
Contents:
Bite Me: Three months after giving birth, the body loses certain hormones -- Latching on, falling off -- Interpreting the foreign queen -- Gong -- Extra -- Favors -- When I say, "I could eat you up" -- Once I did kiss her, wetly on the mouth -- Waiting for the heart to moderate: Night game -- We are the renters -- When I tire of houses and the people in houses -- I need to be more French, or Japanese -- study of writing habits -- Why we shouldn't write love poems, or if we must, why we shouldn't publish them -- On collaboration: downward dog, happy baby, cobra -- Telling the gospel truth -- Riddle, two years later -- gods watch us through the window -- Making an egg for Claire, sunny-side up -- presentation -- Having words with Claire -- Say cheese -- Driving the spoon into her mouth -- First day at daycare -- Lo, the child displayeth cunning, paradise is fayling -- Daddy phase -- gods tell me, you will forget all this. 114.
Abstract:
"The author of Open House, the winner of the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize, offers a new collection of poetry in which she explores the diverse faces, complexities, and contradictions of parenting."
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Local Note:
MUW--Copy 1 from the estate of Judith Keesbury.

MUW--Copy 3 gift of Dr. Bridget S. Pieschel.

MUW--Copy 3 - Dr. Bridget S. Pieschel Collection.

MSU--Noel Polk Collection.

MSU--Autographed copy by author.

DSU-c.2 is signed by the author.
Language:
English
No. of Holds: