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