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Title: HOOKED!
Review: I avidly read poetry once, and for a long time, but I eventually grew tired of what I saw was a trend toward precious lessons on lexicon rather than on life. Beth Ann Fennelly is different. There is geniune experience underlying the pages of TENDER HOOKS, and experience-bred passion, and wit, and bravery, and evident love. The best of Fennelly is on par with the best of Wilbur and Larkin and Bishop and Frost, and I'm thinking especially of her baby poems, especially the first two. They leave me breathless on every read.
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