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Title: Viper Rum
Author: Mary Karr
ISBN: 9780142000182
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Publisher Description: In her third collection of poetry, <b>Viper Rum</b>, 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: <p/>I cast back to those last years<br>I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink, <br>bathrobed, my head hatching snakes, <br> while my baby slept in his upstairs cage<br>and my marriage choked to death <p/>Precise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" <b>(Poetry)</b>. <p/>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
ISBN: 9780142000182
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Publisher Description: In her third collection of poetry, <b>Viper Rum</b>, 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: <p/>I cast back to those last years<br>I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink, <br>bathrobed, my head hatching snakes, <br> while my baby slept in his upstairs cage<br>and my marriage choked to death <p/>Precise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" <b>(Poetry)</b>. <p/>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.
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