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Harper. Collectible - Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Very Good. Very Good dust jacket. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (poetry) Harper ISBN 0060776544 9780060776541 [US]

ISBN10: 0060776544, ISBN13: 9780060776541, [publisher: HarperCollins] Hardcover 112 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, Date: 2006. First Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Marion Ettlinger (author photograph). [16], 93, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page; inscription reads For Gwen--In Sin & Salvation, Mary Karr. Includes Acknowledgments, Pathetic Fallacy; Revelations in the Key of K; Oratorio for the Unbecoming; Disgraceland; Metaphysique du Mal; Descending Theology: The Nativity; Delinquent Missive; This Lesson You've Got; The Choice; A Major; Waiting for God: Self-Portrait as Skeleton; At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave a Message; Elegy for a Rain Salesman; Who the Meek Are Not; Hypertrophied Football Star as Serial Killer; Orders from the Invisible; Requiem: Professor Walt Mink (1927-1996); Pluck; Descending Theology: Christ Human; Miss Flame, Reference for Ex-Man's Next; Winter Term's End; Entering the Kingdom; Descending Theology: The Garden; Hurt Hospital's Best Suicide Jokes; Sinners Welcome; The First Step. Also includes Afterword: Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer. This is Marry Karr's fourth collection of poems. An illuminating cycle of spiritual poems have roots in Karr's eight-month tutelage in Jesuit prayer practice, and as an afterword, her celebrated essay on faith weaves the tale of how the language of poetry, which relieved her suffering so young, eventually became the language of prayer. Those of us who fret that poetry denies consolation will find clear-eyed ...

ISBN10: 0060776544, ISBN13: 9780060776541, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story.Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a complicated mother. The poems disarm with the arresting humor familiar to readers of her memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. An illuminating cycle of spiritual poems have roots in Karr's eight-month tutelage in Jesuit prayer practice, and as an afterword, her celebrated essay on faith weaves the tale of how the language of poetry, which relieved her suffering so young, eventually became the language of prayer. Those of us who fret that poetry denies consolation will find clear-eyed joy in this collection. Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this — her fourth collection of poems —traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord — but not yet!" has anyone ...

ISBN10: 0060776544, ISBN13: 9780060776541, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story.Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a complicated mother. The poems disarm with the arresting humor familiar to readers of her memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. An illuminating cycle of spiritual poems have roots in Karr's eight-month tutelage in Jesuit prayer practice, and as an afterword, her celebrated essay on faith weaves the tale of how the language of poetry, which relieved her suffering so young, eventually became the language of prayer. Those of us who fret that poetry denies consolation will find clear-eyed joy in this collection. Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this — her fourth collection of poems —traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord — but not yet!" has anyone ...