Sinners Welcome

Sinners Welcome

by Mary Karr
Sinners Welcome

Sinners Welcome

by Mary Karr

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Overview

“What gives Sinners Welcome its sharp edge is the poet’s eloquently passionate struggle at the junction of doubt and devotion.” —Washington Post

From Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club, Cherry and Lit, comes Sinners Welcome, her fourth collection of poetry that traces her improbable journey from a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780060776565
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/03/2009
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 93
Sales rank: 677,490
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as The Art of Memoir, also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.

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Sinners Welcome

Poems
By Mary Karr

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright ©2006 Mary Karr
All right reserved.

ISBN: 0060776544

Pathetic Fallacy

When it became impossible to speak to you
due to your having died and been incinerated,
I sometimes held the uncradled phone

with its neat digits and arcane symbols (crosshatch,
black star) as if embedded in it
were some code I could punch in

to reach you. You bequeathed me
this morbid bent, Mother.
Who gives her sixth-grade daughter

Sartre's Nausea to read? All my life,
I watched you face the void,
leaning into it as a child with a black balloon

will bury her countenance
either to hide from
or to merge with that darkness.

Small wonder that still
in the invisible scrim of air
that delineates our separate worlds,

your features sometimes press toward me
all silvery from the afterlife, woven in wind,
to whisper a caution. Or your hand on my back

shoves me into my life.

Continues...


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