This is Joyce Carol Oates' eighth volume of verse, a selection of 57 poems ranging from the lyric to the narrative to the satiric. Most of them have appeared in magazines and journals including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly and Triquarterly.
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(Ontario Review Press, 1 January 1996, paperback, 91 pages, bought from @AmazonUK)
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Tenderness is a more recent collection of JCO's poems than my recent re-read's and one I actually remember reading as it was only a few years ago when I bought it. I like the title of the collection and the front cover really appeals to me. I enjoyed all of the poems in this collection. They're well-written and I'm impressed by the use of imagery. The collection is split into four sections. I especially enjoyed On This Morning of Grief, Undertow Wolf's Head Lake, There Was a Shot and The Triumph of Gravity.
