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 New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Triquarterly; all feature Oates at the height of her powers.