The Devil's Tour
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In her celebrated essay "Against Decoration," published in Parnassus , Mary Karr took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days and their attendant justifications: deconstruction and a "new formalism" that elevates form as an end in itself. Her own poems, she says, are "humanist poems," written for everyday readers rather than an exclusive audience--poems that do not require an academic explication in order to be understood. Of The Devil's Tour , her newest collection, she writes: "This is a book of poems about standing in the dark, about trying to memorize the bad news. The tour is a tour of the skull. l am thinking of Satan in Paradise Lost : 'The mind is its own place and it can make a hell of heav'n or a heav'n of hell ... I myself am hell."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811212319
ISBN13:9780811212311
Release Date:April 1993
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:51 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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poetry as I wish it were more often...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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 sad. A book of poetry definitely worth owning.
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