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Viper Rum by Mary Karr (2001, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Title: Viper Rum. Language: English. Number of Pages: 78. Weight: 0.27 lbs. Publication Date: 2001-09-01. Publisher: Penguin Books.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100142000183

ISBN-139780142000182

eBay Product ID (ePID)2012453

Product Key Features

Book TitleViper Rum

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicWomen Authors, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, Subjects & Themes / Family

GenrePoetry

AuthorMary Karr

Book SeriesPenguin Poets Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight3.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Table Of Contentviper rumViper Rum Incant Against Suicide The Wife of Jesus Speaks The Last of the Brooding Miserables Four of the Horsemen (Hypertense and Stroke, Coronary Occlusion and Cerebral Insult) Hubris The Patient Adieu Beauty and the Shoe Sluts Field of Skulls Summons (or This Won't Hurt You a Bit and It'll Cheer Me Up) Requiem for the New Year The Grand Miracle Mr. D. Refuses the Blessing Terminus Limbo: Altered States The Pallbearer The Century's Worst Blizzard Revenge of the Ex-Mistress Dead Drunk (or The Monster-Maker at Work) Animistic Anatomy Mall Crawl Christ's Passion Domestic Ruins The Invention of God in a Mouthful of Milk County Fair Belongings Lifecycle Stairmaster Chosen Blindess Afterword: Against Decoration Notes Index of Titles & First Lines

SynopsisIn 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.