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Unmentionables

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With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"'"not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three longer sequences display her admirable reach and fierce intelligence: One, "The Kudzu Chronicles," is a rollicking piece about the transplanted weed. Another, "Bertha Morisot: Retrospective," conjures up a complex life portrait of the French impressionist painter. The third presents fifteen dream songs that virtually out-Berryman Berryman.

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"Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems."--Booklist

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A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).

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With elegant word play and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly questions our everyday human foibles.
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Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, Open House and Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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ISBN:
9780393337297
Subtitle:
Poems
Author:
Fennelly, Beth Ann
Author:
Fennelly, Beth
Author:
Fennelly, Beth A.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
American - General
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Single Author / American
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Publication Date:
20091026
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
8.10x6.10x.40 in. .35 lbs.
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