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Sinners Welcome: Poems | Mary Karr
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Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story. Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a complicated mother. The poems disarm with the arresting humor familiar to readers of her memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. An illuminating cycle of spiritual poems have roots in Karr's eight-month tutelage in Jesuit prayer practice, and as an afterword, her celebrated essay on faith weaves the tale of how the language of poetry, which relieved her suffering so young, eventually became the language of prayer. Those of us who fret that poetry denies consolation will find clear-eyed joy in this collection.
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I love everything about this cover. Somehow I've read all three of Mary Karr's memoirs but never picked up her poetry? So tonight I start this collection and see where it leads 🤞

#poetry

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Karr explores her faith and the usual poetic subjects of love, loss, and mortality in this collection. It was a mixed bag for me - I felt there were some knockout poems here and a few that fell flat. The collection ends with an essay about the evolution of her nontraditional yet Christian-rooted faith.

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"There‘s always joy in seeing how others see, even when it also entails a stab of pain."

I'm no #poetry expert, but I really liked this collection. Most of the poems are very dark; many about the death of her eccentric mother. Some of the less dismal were are about her son. I liked those the most.

Published three years apart, this is a great companion to Karr's third memoir, #Lit.

ReadingEnvy I liked these! 7y
vivastory I was acquainted with Karr through her poetry. I forgot about them after reading her memoir. I recall enjoying 7y
britt_brooke @vivastory Thanks for tagging that one. I believe there are 4 total poetry books. I need to get my hands on them! 7y
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Found at Friends of the Library Bookstore, Bloomington, Indiana!!! 😍

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