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Book

Tropic of squalor : poems

Author

Mary Karr

Call Number

  • 811 K1882 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]

Physical Description

xiv, 75 pages ; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Contents

  • The organ donor's driver's license has a black check
  • Loony bin basketball
  • The burning girl
  • Illiterate progenitor
  • Read these
  • Discomfort food for the unwhole
  • The devil's delusion
  • Dear Oklahoma teen smashed on Reservation Road
  • The age of criticism
  • Exurbia
  • Lord, I was faithless
  • Suicide's note: An annual
  • The awakening (after Milosz)
  • How God speaks
  • Face down
  • The child abuse tour
  • The less Holy Bible : I. Genesis: Animal Planet
  • II. Numbers: Poison Profundis
  • III. Leviticus: In dreams begin responsibilities
  • IV. Exodus: Bolt Action
  • V. Chronicles: Hell's Kitchen
  • VI. Wisdom: The voice of God
  • VII. Judges: Awe and Disorder
  • VIII. Obadiah: A perfect mess
  • IX. Ecclesiastes: Amok run
  • X. Psalms: Carnegie Hall rush seats
  • XI. Hey Jude: Prophetic Interlude by the ghost of Walt Whitman
  • XII. Malachi: Truckload of Nails
  • XIII. Hebrews: The Mogul
  • XIV. Lamentations: The more deceived
  • XV. Kings: The obscenity prayer
  • XVI. Marks and Johns: The Blessed Mother complains to the Lord her God about the abundance of brokenness she receives
  • XVII. Acts: The Like button
  • XVIII. Petering: Recuperation from the sunk love under the Aegis of Christ and Isaac Babel
  • XIX. Philemon: Notes from the Underground
  • XX. Revelation: The messenger
  • Coda toward the New New Covenant: Death sentence.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.