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 Mary Karr Information
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 Mary Karr (1955 - ) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. Karr has received acclaim for her literary work from Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. Her memoir, The Liars' Club, published in 1995, was a New... 
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 Publishers Weekly Mary Karr: A Life Saved By Stories.
10/02/2000: 2,180 words, approx. 7 pages Mary Karr says she had one complaint when The Liars' Club was published in 1995. Karr's account of her childhood in Port Arthur, Tex., buffeted by the stormy interactions of her hard-drinking parents, was the critical hit of the season, praised by reviewers... summary from source:
National Catholic Reporter Mary Karr: sharing the shock of reality.
09/29/2006: 2,039 words, approx. 7 pages Mary Karr's new book, Sinners Welcome, is stunning both as poetry and conversion story. Those who have read Karr before will recognize her characteristically fresh, earthy language, but many will be astonished at the spiritual depth revealed in Sinners Welcome, her fourth book... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Blotto Tales of Manhattan
1/23/2005: 1,636 words, approx. 6 pages"It seems to me that young girl memoirs get a bad rap," said Koren Zailckas, age 24. The waifish author of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, which will be published by Viking in February, was sitting quietly at Mama's, a comfort-food restaurant near her...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Eric Murphy Selinger
14,156 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Selinger offers a critical reading of The Liars' Club within the context of the prose memoir genre and in conjunction with Karr's poetry volume Viper Rum and her literary essay “Against Decoration.”
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Critical Essay by Mary Karr
7,811 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, which was originally published in Parnassus magazine in 1991, Karr expounds her opinions on modern poetic techniques and presents a critique of contemporary neo-formalist poetry, arguing that it lacks both emotion and clarity.
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Critical Essay by Robert McDowell
4,690 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, McDowell discusses the emergence of the “Expansive poetry” or “neo-formalist” style in a selection of poetry volumes, analyzing Viper Rum within the context of Karr's critical essay “Against Decoration.”
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