| Description |
78 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 73) and index. |
| Summary |
In her first book since "The Liar's Club", Karr delves into the autobiographical subject matter of her two early collections. Various beloveds are birthed and buried in these lyrics, some of which--as the title suggests--deal with drink. Exact and surprising, her poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" ("Poetry"). |
| Contents |
Viper Rum -- Incant Against Suicide -- The Wife of Jesus Speaks -- The Last of the Brooding Miserables -- Four of the Horsemen (Hypertense and Stroke, Coronary Occlusion and Cerebral Insult) -- Hubris -- The Patient -- Adieu -- Beauty and the Shoe Sluts -- Field of Skulls -- Summons (or This Won't Hurt You A Bit and It'll Cheer Me Up) -- Requiem for the New Year -- The Grand Miracle -- Mr. D. Refuses the Blessing -- Terminus -- Limbo: Altered States -- The Pallbearer -- The Century's Worst Blizzard -- Revenge of the Ex-Mistress -- Dead Drunk (or The Monster-Maker at Work) -- Animistic Anatomy -- Mall Crawl -- Christ's Passion -- Domestic Ruins -- The Invention of God in a Mouthful of Milk -- County Fair -- Belongings -- Lifecycle Stairmaster -- Chosen Blindness -- Afterword: Against Decoration. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| ISBN |
081121382X (alk. paper) |
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9780811213820 (alk. paper) |
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