Background
Karr, Mary Marlene was born on January 16, 1955 in Groves, Texas, United States. Daughter of J.P. and Charlie Marie (Moore) Karr.
(In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr d...)
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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(From Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times best...)
From Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club and Cherry, comes the paperback edition of Sinners Welcome, her fourth and most recent collection of poetry. Published to coincide with the hardcover release of her newest memoir, Lit, Sinners Welcome traces her improbable journey from a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism.
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Karr, Mary Marlene was born on January 16, 1955 in Groves, Texas, United States. Daughter of J.P. and Charlie Marie (Moore) Karr.
Attended, Macalester College, St. Paul. Master of Fine Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1979.
Former faculty member Tufts University, Emerson College, Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College. Jesse Truesbell Peck professor literature Syracuse University, New York, since 1991.
(In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr d...)
(From Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times best...)
Married Michael Milburn, 1983 (divorced 1991). 1 child Devereux.