01638cam a2200289 i 4500 506916945 TxAuBib 20210922120000.0 200522s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020012236 9780062699831 PAP 16.99 0062699830 PAP 16.99 TxAuBib rda Karr, Mary. Tropic of squalor. Poems Selections. Tropic of squalor [BOOK] : poems / Mary Karr. First Harper Perennial edition. New York : Harper Perennial, 2020. xiv, 75 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous—that mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful person wrestles with sits at the core of human suffering, and Karr renders it with power—illness, death, love’s agonized disappointments. Her brazen verse calls us out of our psychic swamplands and into that hard-won awareness of the divine hiding in the small moments that make us human. Provided by publisher. 20210922. American poetry 20th century. Poetry.