Sinners Welcome - Poems

Zusatztext “These poems…demonstrate poetry as religion’s kin. While not for the unquestioning devout! this book should stand beside works by writers like Thomas Merton or William Everson (a.k.a. Brother Antonitus) in both poetry and spiritual collections.” Informationen zum Autor Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars’ Club , Cherry , and Lit , as well as The Art of Memoir , also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. Klappentext In her fourth collection of poems, self-described black-belt sinner Mary Karr traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote “Give me chastity, Lord—but not yet!” has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story. Zusammenfassung “What gives Sinners Welcome its sharp edge is the poet’s eloquently passionate struggle at the junction of doubt and devotion.” -- Washington Post From Mary Karr! the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club! Cherry and Lit ! comes Sinners Welcome ! her fourth collection of poetry that traces her improbable journey from a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Karr
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.11.2009
• EAN: 9780060776565
• ISBN: 978-0-06-077656-5
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION: Inspirational, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Medieval, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family