Mary Karr. strange York: New Direc...
Mary Karr. strange York: New Directions, 1998. The shelter of Mary Karr's recent Viper Rum - a dead snake coiled in formaldehyde - gives clear warning to anyone looking to find rhapsodies forward butterflies or the vagaries of autumn. This numbers eats that kind of metrical composition Karr might say. Her last volume of poems, The Devil's Tour, featured a medieval pageant where two skeletons hold, above the head of a modest maiden, a mirror that meditates a skull; beneath, a caption reads, "Hither you approach behold what you are, what you will be, or were.... 'Know thyself'" In Viper Rum Karr expects ...
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