Tender Hooks: Poems,9780393058628

Tender Hooks: Poems

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ISBN13: 9780393058628
ISBN10: 039305862X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-04-01
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

"A necessary poet with the courage to 'Tell all the truth' and the 'wit to tell it slant.'"Alice Fulton Beth Ann Fennelly is fearless in delineating the joys, absorptions, andyesjealousies 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.

Table of Contents

I
Bite Me
15(4)
Three Months After Giving Birth, the Body Loses Certain Hormones
19(3)
Latching On, Falling Off
22(8)
Interpreting the Foreign Queen
30(1)
Gong
31(1)
Extra
32(1)
Favors
33(1)
"If Only We Could Keep Them Small Forever"
34(1)
Once I Did Kiss Her Wetly on the Mouth
35(4)
II
Waiting for the Heart to Moderate
39(2)
Night Game
41(1)
Land Where My Father Died
42(2)
When I Tire of Houses and the People in Houses
44(1)
We Are the Renters
45(2)
I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese.
47(2)
A Study of Writing Habits
49(5)
Why We Shouldn't Write Love Poems, or If We Must, Why We Shouldn't Publish Them
54(5)
III
On Collaboration: Downward Dog, Happy Baby, Cobra
59(6)
Telling the Gospel Truth
65(19)
Riddle, Two Years Later
84(2)
The Gods Watch Us Through the Window
86(1)
Making an Egg for Claire, Sunny-Side Up
87(1)
The Presentation
88(15)
IV
Having Words with Claire
103(6)
Say Cheese
109(1)
Driving the Spoon into Her Mouth
110(1)
First Day at Daycare
111(1)
Lo, the Child Displayeth Cunning, Paradise Is Fayling
112(2)
Daddy Phase
114(3)
The Gods Tell Me, You Will Forget All This
117

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