In her celebrated essay "Against Decoration," published in Parnassus , Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a "new formalism" that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are "humanist poems," written for everyday readers rather than an exclusive audience--poems that do not require an academic explication in order to be understood. Of The Devil's Tour , her newest collection, she writes: "This is ...
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In her celebrated essay "Against Decoration," published in Parnassus , Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a "new formalism" that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are "humanist poems," written for everyday readers rather than an exclusive audience--poems that do not require an academic explication in order to be understood. Of The Devil's Tour , her newest collection, she writes: "This is a book of poems about standing in the dark, about trying to memorize the bad news. The tour is a tour of the skull. l am thinking of Satan in Paradise Lost : 'The mind is its own place and it can make a hell of heav'n or a heav'n of hell ... I myself am hell."
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Fine. like new except black marker line on top edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 51 p. New Directions Paperbook, 768. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. First edition. Glossy wrappers. Foxing to the top edge, rubbing to the wrappers and sunning to the spine partially affecting the rear wrapper, very good or better. Poetry. NDP 768.
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New York. 1993. New Directions. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0811212319. Paperback Original. 64 pages. paperback. Cover design by Hermann Strohbach. keywords: Poetry Women Texas. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In her celebrated essay 'Against Decoration, published in Parnassus, Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a new formalism that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are humanist poems, written for everyday readers rather than an exclusive audience—poems that do not require an academic explication in order to be understood. Of The Devil's Tour, her newest collection, she writes: This is a book of poems about standing in the dark, about trying to memorize the bad news. The tour is a tour of the skull. I am thinking of Satan in Paradise Lost: 'The mind is its own place and it can make a hell of heav'n or a heav'n of hell. I myself am hell. ' Karr is an unsentimental realist whose capacity for pleasure and praise is all the more convincing for her clear-eyed view of contingency. -Jonathan Aaron, The Harvard Book Review. inventory #26304.
