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Sinners Welcome
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ISBN10: 0060776560
ISBN13: 9780060776565
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Nov 3 2009
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780060776565
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Nov 3 2009
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
With the same raw honesty that made her memoirs a phenomenon, these poems grapple with the sacred and the profane:
- Confessional Poetry: Unflinching verses that revisit a tormented Texas childhood and confront family trauma with Karr's signature dark humor and grace.
- Doubt and Devotion: A passionate, often-irreverent dialogue with God from a poet who wrestles with faith as fiercely as she embraces it.
- Addiction and Recovery: Honest poems that map the journey from the bottom of a bottle to the hard-won clarity of sobriety, finding grace in the most unexpected places.
- The Poetry of Prayer: An exploration of how verse becomes a form of prayer, and how a skeptical mind can find a home in the rituals and mysteries of the Catholic Church.
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