The Devil's Tour by Mary Karr
In her celebrated essay “Against Decoration,” published in Parnassus, Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a “new formalism” that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are “humanist poems,” written for everyday readers rather than an exclusive audience––poems that do not require an academic explication in order to be understood. Of The Devil’s Tour, her newest collection, she writes: “This is a book of poems about standing in the dark, about trying to memorize the bad news. The tour is a tour of the skull. l am thinking of Satan in Paradise Lost: ’The mind is its own place and it can make a hell of heav’n or a heav’n of hell … I myself am hell.”The Liars' Club, a New York Times bestseller for nearly a year, was named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People, and Time, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and has received the Whiting Award, Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Awards for both verse and essays. Her other best-selling novels include The Art of Memoir, Lit and Cherry, and Sinners Welcome, as well as Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus, a poetry collection. Karr lives in New York City and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811212311 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811212319 |
| Title | The Devil's Tour |
| Author | Mary Karr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 1993-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 51 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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