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Tropic of Squalor - Poems

English · Paperback / Softback

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A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar's Club and Lit. 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 and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor , Karr dares to address the numinous--that mystery some of us hope towards 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.

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Authors Mary Karr
Publisher Harper Perennial USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2020
 
EAN 9780062699831
ISBN 978-0-06-269983-1
No. of pages 96
Dimensions 140 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, LITERATURE: POETRY, POETRY: CREATIVE WRITING

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