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Viper Rum Paperback - 2001
by Mary Karr
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.
Summary
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.
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.
First line
All day we had run-ins with jungle snakes.
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- Title Viper Rum
- Author Mary Karr
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date August 28, 2001
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780142000182 / 0142000183
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.72 x 0.32 in (21.44 x 14.53 x 0.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97047576
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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