Tropic of Squalor

Author : Mary Karr

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 31 March 2020

ISBN : 9780062699831

Price : €19.88

Description

A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liars Club and Lit.

Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs.

In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinousthat mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful person wrestles with sits at the core of human suffering, and Karr renders it with powerillness, death, loves agonized disappointments. Her brazen verse calls us out of our psychic swamplands and into that hard-won awareness of the divine hiding in the small moments that make us human. In a single poem she can generate tears, horror, empathy, laughter, and peace. She never preaches. But whether youre an adamant atheist, a pilgrim, or skeptically curious, these poems will urge you to find an inner light in the most baffling hours of darkness.

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