Synopses & Reviews
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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"Dramatic, complex . . . and enthralled with language . . . genuinely outstanding." Verse Daily
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"This collection is stunning in its technical range and in its emotional complexity." The Southern Register
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"A feast of light and sound." Paste
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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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"Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems."--
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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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“Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems.”—Booklist
About the Author
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.