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 numinous—that 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 power—illness, death, love’s 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 you’re 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.
“A catalogue of broken graces.... Scorched, palpable, sometimes pungent, sometimes brutal: Karr’s new collection is a mixture of tight narratives that end without resolution, hymns of unsettled suffering, and confused prayers.” (The Millions)
“Know best for her bold memoirs, Karr brings the same scorching frankness to her vivid, kinetic lyrics.... Karr’s poems are thrilling in their vitality, dazzle, nerve, longing, and camouflaged depth.” (Booklist)
“A catalogue of broken graces.... Scorched, palpable, sometimes pungent, sometimes brutal: Karr’s new collection is a mixture of tight narratives that end without resolution, hymns of unsettled suffering, and confused prayers.” (The Millions)
“Know best for her bold memoirs, Karr brings the same scorching frankness to her vivid, kinetic lyrics.... Karr’s poems are thrilling in their vitality, dazzle, nerve, longing, and camouflaged depth.” (Booklist)
- 9 quotes from Mary Karr, Cherry: '(As an adult, it will stun you that most bizarre encounters with virtual strangers from this period could have ended by your simply leaving, walking away—an option you exercised by running off from various buys but that never occurred to you in real time).' , 'This loneliness sets you loose on a spiritual path, for after so many goodbyes and so many hungover.
- From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom.
- Free download or read online Cherry pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in January 1st 2000, and was written by Mary Karr. The book was published in multiple languages including, consists of 288 pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this autobiography, memoir story are,. The book has been awarded with, and many others.
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- Cherry : a memoir
- Title
- Cherry
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Karr
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Book Cherry Mary Karr
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'In this sequel, Karr dashes down the trail of the teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. She flees the thrills and terrors of her sexual awakening by butting up against authority in all its forms - from the school principal to various Texas law officers. Looking for a lover or heart's companion who'll make her feel whole, she hooks up with an outrageous band of surfers and heads, wannable yogis and bone fide geniuses. There's Meredith, who tempers Karr's penchant for rock and roll with literary wit. And Donnie is the wild-man beach aficionado who crawls into her life 'on his hands and knees like a reptile.'--BOOK JACKET
- Biography type
- autobiography
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- Karr, Mary
- 811/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3561.A6929
- LC item number
- Z465 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Karr, Mary
- Poets, American
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- Cherry : a memoir, Mary Karr
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- Control code
- 43662258
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670892747
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 00035199
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- Cherry : a memoir, Mary Karr
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- Content category
- text
Cherry By Mary Karr Reviews
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- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 43662258
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670892747
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 00035199
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- unmediated
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Library Locations
- 400 West 14th Street, Rolla, MO, 65409, US
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