Tropic of squalor
poems
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Word Count
18,750 words, Guess
Page Count
75 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100062699822
- ISBN-139780062699824
- OCLC Control Number1000375920
- Better World Books9780062699824
- Open LibraryOL26961183M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3561.A6929 A6 2018
- LCCPS3561.A6929A6 2018
Description
"Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral, deeply felt, and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous--that mystery some of us hope toward in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful person wrestles with sits at the core of human suffering, and Karr renders it with power--illness, death, love's agonized disappointments. Her brazen verse calls us out of our psychic swamplands and into that hard-won awareness of the divine hiding in the small moments that make us human. In a single poem she can generate tears, horror, empathy, laughter, and peace. She never preaches. But whether you're an adamant atheist, a pilgrim, or skeptically curious, these poems will urge you to find an inner light in the most baffling hours of darkness." --Front flap of dust jacket.
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