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Now that gift returns to its origins in poetry. Viper Rum delves into the autobiographical subject matter of her two early collections (The Devil's Tour, New Directions, 1994, and Abacus, Wesleyan, 1987). 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 nay baby slept in his upstairs cage/and my marriage choked to death.... Exact and surprising, her poems take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own (Poetry). The prize-winning essay Against Decoration, which first set off a controversy in Parnassus, serves as an Afterword. In it, Karr attacks the popular toward ornament in contemporary poetry: the highbrow doily-making that for art today.

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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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  • PublisherNew Directions
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 081121382X
  • ISBN 13 9780811213820
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages96
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