Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr, 93 pages
An admirable collection of poems that manages to wed the sublime to the grotesque. Karr finds faith, hope, and love - in short, the sacred - in the unlikeliest places and things, conveying meaning and feeling with a light touch that never becomes sentimental or preachy. The best of the poems surprise with a flicker of light in what seemed dead dimness.
Included is an essay Karr wrote for Poetry magazine about her slow, grudging conversion to Catholicism, out of long struggles with alcoholism but also a sense of the sacredness of words.
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