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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1. Steve says:

   April 8th, 2009

   If you want to hear more from the book “Unmentionables” you can listen to Fennelly read “Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s 16″ on poemsoutloud.net.

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