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143 reviews
Mary Karr

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

This Book is Brilliant
Mary Karr's writing is beautifully poetic, simple, yet amazingly eloquent. This book is a treasure. Not only because it's so well-written, but because of the personal nature of it. Karr doesn't allow me to feel like I'm imposing on her private memories. She is only being open and true to those memories. This approach only draws respect from the reader.

Cherry
Mary Karr

Viking, 2000

As a girl idling her way through long, toxically boring summer afternoons in Leechfield, Texas, Mary Karr dreamed up an unusual career for herself, "to write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography." She has since done both, and even when she's recounting a dirty joke, she can't help but employ a poet's precise and musical vision. Her first memoir, The Liar's Club, was as searing a chronicle of family life as can be imagined--tough, funny, ...

Viper Rum (Poets, Penguin)

6 reviews
Mary Karr

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001

great
I enjoyed "The Devil's Tour" (Karr's other in-print book of poetry) so much, and bought "Viper Rum" as soon as I found it. I was not disappointed. Reflecting on loss in various forms, Karr says what she means, and says it beautifully. No 'decoration' here - the poems prove that the poet's ideas presented in the essay "Against Decoration" (at the back of this book) work very well. The idea of ...

The Devil's Tour

1 review
Mary Karr

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993

poetry as I wish it were more often...
The poems in 'The Devils' Tour' are gorgeous - straightforward, but far from simpleminded. I am generally quite wary of poetry... there is so much potential for either intellectual elitism or, conversely, oversentimental silliness. Not so here. The first poem ('Coleman') - a recollection of a young interracial friendship or romance and its consequences - is especially beautiful, and also very ...

Cherry

72 reviews
Mary Karr

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001

Incredible
This is my absolute favorite book in the past few years. Karr is outstanding at description. I've never read anything as precise and beautiful and inventive. Her description of an attention-driven suicide attempt is hilarious and profoundly sad. The writing style is deliciously funny and smart, Karr is a keen observer of sexuality, adolescence, and change, and physicality permeates the story. ...

The Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success

5 reviews
Al Siebert, Mary Karr

Practical Psychology Press, 2008

The Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success
I thought the book covered everything from deciding to attend college to getting a job once you've graduated beautifully. The most useful information is by far the study tips! I liked it so much I'm buying a copy for a friend.

The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)

3 reviews
T.S. Eliot

Modern Library, 2002

Beautiful collection and engaging introduction by Mary Karr
I just finished a Modern Library anthology of T.S. Eliot's writings entitled simply "The Waste Land And Other Writings". Beginning with an entertaining if somewhat controversial introduction by Mary Karr, the next 234 pages provide a glimpse into Eliot's creative and critical mind. Being an autodidact, I confess ignorance about where Mr. Eliot stands in the esteem of academia today, but I was ...

Sinners Welcome: Poems

14 reviews
Mary Karr

HarperCollins, 2006

Karr as a religious poet
When it comes to Donne or the early Eliot, readers are drawn by the poet's edginess. Think about "The Relique" or "St. Narcissus." In Mary Karr's collection "Sinners Welcome," Karr trafficks in the essential difference between the incarnational God and the Olympian god: God (at least one of the three persons) underwent the human experience by having walked among us. These bold poems by Karr ...

The Adult Student's Guide to Survival and Success (Adult Student's Guide to Survival & Success)

5 reviews
Al Siebert, Mary Karr

Practical Psychology Press, 2003

"Must" reading for those returning to school from an absence
Now in an updated and expanded fourth edition, The Adult Student's Guide To Survival And Success shows the adult learner how to overcome fears, study and pass tests, get financial help, gain family support, balance work and college, create a portfolio, be resilient and adaptable, use Internet resource, achieve educational and technical proficiency. The collaborative effort of educators and ...

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Mary Karr

Goldmann, 2002

The Liar's Club
Mary Karr

Books on Tape, Inc., 1998

This memoir of growing up poor in a Texas refinery town is from a time long gone but from a place that feels eternally rural south. A handful of the town's workers gather regularly to drink salted beer and spin tall-tales. They're the Liar's Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion, they exude a glamour that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies, darker, mmore hidden. A mad, puritanical grandmother; a ...

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