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Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of Tender Hooks: Poems and Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother . A professor of English at the University of Mississippi, Fennelly lives with her husband and children in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 413 ratings · 82 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Tender Hooks: Poems 4.22 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother 4.28 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Unmentionables 3.96 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Open House by Beth Ann Fennelly, David Baker (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Different Kind of Hunger 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe IV by Sonny Brewer (Editor), Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beth Ann Fennelly (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Alumni Grill: Volume 2 by Tom Franklin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beth Ann Fennelly (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality by Wendy Reed (Editor), Jennifer Horne (Editor), Mary Karr (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	The Poetics of American Song Lyrics by Charlotte Pence (Editor), Lamar Alexander, Gordon Ball 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn't mean it to. If she could, she'd let him bear her secret. She'd let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they'd remember how it feels to be inhabited.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly, Unmentionables

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“And Lord did I push, for thee more hours
I pushed, I pushed so hard I shat,
Pushed so hard blood vessels burst
in my neck and in my chest, pushed so hard my asshole turned inside-out like a rosebud.”
― Beth Ann Fennelly