| Viper Rum Contributor(s): Karr, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142000183 ISBN-13: 9780142000182 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2001 Annotation: In her third collection of poetry, Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter including the births and deaths of beloved family members. It also contains Karr's controversial and prize-winning essay "Against Decoration" in which she takes aim against verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 97047576 |
| Series: Penguin Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.72" W x 8.44" (0.27 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |