{"product_id":"viper-rum-isbn-9780142000182","title":"Viper Rum","description":"In her third collection of poetry, \u003cb\u003eViper Rum\u003c\/b\u003e, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI cast back to those last years\u003cbr\u003eI drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink,\u003cbr\u003ebathrobed, my head hatching snakes,\u003cbr\u003e while my baby slept in his upstairs cage\u003cbr\u003eand my marriage choked to death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrecise and surprising, Karr's poems \"take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own\" \u003cb\u003e(Poetry)\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso included is Karr's controversial and prize-winning essay \"Against Decoration,\" in which she took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days-the \"new formalism\" that elevates form to an end itself.viper rumViper Rum\u003cbr\u003eIncant Against Suicide\u003cbr\u003eThe Wife of Jesus Speaks\u003cbr\u003eThe Last of the Brooding Miserables\u003cbr\u003eFour of the Horsemen (Hypertense and Stroke, Coronary Occlusion and Cerebral Insult)\u003cbr\u003eHubris\u003cbr\u003eThe Patient\u003cbr\u003eAdieu\u003cbr\u003eBeauty and the Shoe Sluts\u003cbr\u003eField of Skulls\u003cbr\u003eSummons (or This Won't Hurt You a Bit and It'll Cheer Me Up)\u003cbr\u003eRequiem for the New Year\u003cbr\u003eThe Grand Miracle\u003cbr\u003eMr. D. Refuses the Blessing\u003cbr\u003eTerminus\u003cbr\u003eLimbo: Altered States\u003cbr\u003eThe Pallbearer\u003cbr\u003eThe Century's Worst Blizzard\u003cbr\u003eRevenge of the Ex-Mistress\u003cbr\u003eDead Drunk (or The Monster-Maker at Work)\u003cbr\u003eAnimistic Anatomy\u003cbr\u003eMall Crawl\u003cbr\u003eChrist's Passion\u003cbr\u003eDomestic Ruins\u003cbr\u003eThe Invention of God in a Mouthful of Milk\u003cbr\u003eCounty Fair\u003cbr\u003eBelongings\u003cbr\u003eLifecycle Stairmaster\u003cbr\u003eChosen Blindess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Against Decoration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles \u0026amp; First Lines\u003c\/p\u003eMary Karr's poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in magazines such as the \u003cb\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eParnassus\u003c\/b\u003e. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College, and is now the Jesse Truesdale Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305259520229,"sku":"NP9780142000182","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142000182.jpg?v=1767743473","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/viper-rum-isbn-9780142000182","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}