Sinners Welcome: Poems (Hardcover)

Mary Karr

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Sinners Welcome: Poems Book Description

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --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.

Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a complicated mother. The poems disarm with the arresting humor familiar to readers of her memoirs, "The Liars' Club and Cherry," An illuminating cycle of spiritual poems have roots in Karr's eight-month tutelage in Jesuit prayer practice, and as an afterword, her celebrated essay on faith weaves the tale of how the language of poetry, which relieved her suffering so young, eventually became the language of prayer. Those of us who fret that poetry denies consolation will find clear-eyed joy in this collection.

About the Author :

Mary Karr has contributed to Sinners Welcome: Poems as an author. Mary Karr is a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. Her previous two memoirs, "The Liars' Club" and "Cherry", were "New York Times" bestsellers.

Book Details

Title:	Sinners Welcome: Poems
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Author:	Mary Karr
Edition:	Hardcover
Language:	English
ISBN:	0060776544
EAN:	9780060776541
No. of Pages:	93
Publish Date:	2006-2-28
Binding:	Hardcover

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