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"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.
With the same raw honesty that made her memoirs a phenomenon, these poems grapple with the sacred and the profane:
- Confessional Poetry: Unflinching verses that revisit a tormented Texas childhood and confront family trauma with Karr's signature dark humor and grace.
- Doubt and Devotion: A passionate, often-irreverent dialogue with God from a poet who wrestles with faith as fiercely as she embraces it.
- Addiction and Recovery: Honest poems that map the journey from the bottom of a bottle to the hard-won clarity of sobriety, finding grace in the most unexpected places.
- The Poetry of Prayer: An exploration of how verse becomes a form of prayer, and how a skeptical mind can find a home in the rituals and mysteries of the Catholic Church.
Author: Mary Karr
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/03/2009
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780060776565
About the Author
Karr, Mary: -
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.
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"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.
With the same raw honesty that made her memoirs a phenomenon, these poems grapple with the sacred and the profane:
- Confessional Poetry: Unflinching verses that revisit a tormented Texas childhood and confront family trauma with Karr's signature dark humor and grace.
- Doubt and Devotion: A passionate, often-irreverent dialogue with God from a poet who wrestles with faith as fiercely as she embraces it.
- Addiction and Recovery: Honest poems that map the journey from the bottom of a bottle to the hard-won clarity of sobriety, finding grace in the most unexpected places.
- The Poetry of Prayer: An exploration of how verse becomes a form of prayer, and how a skeptical mind can find a home in the rituals and mysteries of the Catholic Church.
Author: Mary Karr
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/03/2009
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780060776565
About the Author
Karr, Mary: -
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.
