{"product_id":"sinners-welcome-paperback","title":"Sinners Welcome - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What gives Sinners Welcome its sharp edge is the poet's eloquently passionate struggle at the junction of doubt and devotion.\" --Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club, Cherry and Lit, comes Sinners Welcome, her fourth collection of poetry that traces her improbable journey from a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the same raw honesty that made her memoirs a phenomenon, these poems grapple with the sacred and the profane: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eConfessional Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e Unflinching verses that revisit a tormented Texas childhood and confront family trauma with Karr's signature dark humor and grace.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDoubt and Devotion: \u003c\/b\u003e A passionate, often-irreverent dialogue with God from a poet who wrestles with faith as fiercely as she embraces it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAddiction and Recovery: \u003c\/b\u003e Honest poems that map the journey from the bottom of a bottle to the hard-won clarity of sobriety, finding grace in the most unexpected places.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Poetry of Prayer: \u003c\/b\u003e An exploration of how verse becomes a form of prayer, and how a skeptical mind can find a home in the rituals and mysteries of the Catholic Church.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth collection of poems, self-described black-belt sinner Mary Karr traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote \"Give me chastity, Lord--but not yet!\" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56101457068337,"sku":"9780060776565","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/JSxwfiwX5U9780060776565.webp?v=1788449820","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/sinners-welcome-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}