{"product_id":"tropic-of-squalor-poems-9780062699831","title":"Tropic of Squalor: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new volume of poetry from the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and esteemed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Liar's Club\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLit.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and deeply felt and hilarious as her memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eTropic of Squalor\u003c\/em\u003e, Karr dares to address the numinous--that mystery some of us hope towards in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The \"squalor\" of meaninglessness that every thoughtful person wrestles with sits at the core of human suffering, and Karr renders it with power--illness, death, love's agonized disappointments. Her brazen verse calls us out of our psychic swamplands and into that hard-won awareness of the divine hiding in the small moments that make us human. In a single poem she can generate tears, horror, empathy, laughter, and peace. She never preaches. But whether you're an adamant atheist, a pilgrim, or skeptically curious, these poems will urge you to find an inner light in the most baffling hours of darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarr, Mary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: \u003cem\u003eThe Liars' Club\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCherry\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLit\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, also a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491470315794,"sku":"9780062699831","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_561d3af8-bb0c-48b3-a31b-b6804cd891c7.jpg?v=1730541690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tropic-of-squalor-poems-9780062699831","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}