A Different Kind of Hunger (Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Series) [Paperback]

Beth Ann Fennelly (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Texas Review Press; 1 edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188151515X
• ISBN-13: 978-1881515159
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,325,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book made me want to read more poetry, October 10, 2000

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This review is from: A Different Kind of Hunger (Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Series) (Paperback)

I'm a reader mainly of fiction, often finding contemporary poetry esoteric and confessional. Beth Ann Fennelly seems to have made up her mind to change that. The poems in this chapbook are absolutely lovely and lyrical, smart and funny, surprising and rich. In a broad range of forms (dramatic monologues, sonnets, sestinas, etc), Ms. Fennelly explores a wide scope of subject matter, from love (a great poem about a boyfriend/husband/lover who catches snakes "like you'd pinch lightning in mid-air" and lets them go; the poem's narrator feels the same gentleness from the lover, saying that she, the narrator, is free to go, too) to history (read the absolutely stunning "Madame L. Describes the Seige of Paris" where, when Paris was surrounded by Prussians, the starving Parisians storm the zoo and eat the animals: it's an amazing--and long!--poem, narrative in structure and full of strange detail) to art (several great examples here). I can't say enough about this book or this poet. I've seen other poems of hers in lit journals and I anticipate her first full-length book. Beth Ann Fennelly may have just re-converted me to poetry. And I thank her.