Viper Rum by Karr, Mary
Viper Rum by Karr, Mary

Viper Rum

In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds...
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SKU: 9780142000182
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Author: Mary Karr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Viper Rum by Karr, Mary

Viper Rum

$48.31
Viper Rum by Karr, Mary

Viper Rum

$48.31
Author: Mary Karr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink:

I cast back to those last years
I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink,
bathrobed, my head hatching snakes,
while my baby slept in his upstairs cage
and my marriage choked to death

Precise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" (Poetry).

Also included is Karr's controversial and prize-winning essay "Against Decoration," in which she took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days-the "new formalism" that elevates form to an end itself.

Author: Mary Karr
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.72w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780142000182
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Mary Karr's poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Parnassus. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, and is now the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse.


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