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Viper Rum: Poetry
by Karr, Mary
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 081121382X
- ISBN 13
- 9780811213820
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New Directions, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink. Fine book in fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
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.
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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1672905587583
- Title
- Viper Rum: Poetry
- Author
- Karr, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 081121382X
- ISBN 13
- 9780811213820
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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