Tenderness Poems Author:Joyce Carol Oates Now in paperback, the most recent volume of poems by the award-winning author. Tenderness, the eighth volume of verse by Joyce Carol Oates, is a generous selection of fifty-seven poems, ranging in voice from the lyric to the narrative to the satiric. Most of them have appeared in prominent magazines and literary journals, including The... more » New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Triquarterly; all feature Oates at the height of her powers.« less