{"product_id":"the-devils-tour-mary-karr-9780811212311","title":"The Devil's Tour","description":"In her celebrated essay \"Against Decoration,\" published in \u003cem\u003eParnassus\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Tour\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e: '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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Karr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811212319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.34w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1993","brand":"Mary Karr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980580290815,"sku":"9780811212311","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6768070c-68a2-4824-86e5-656e8c09645d.jpg?v=1683250711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-devils-tour-mary-karr-9780811212311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}