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Her poetry shines in her descriptions of various key memories in her life which God has used to shape her, guide her, call her, bring her to her knees before Him. If you like reading poetry and are interested in the intersection of faith and art, I highly recommend this book. Apr 17, Twila Newey rated it liked it Shelves: poetry. I heard her speak. She is a good speaker. I started two books and finished this one. She is a good writer.
I think it maybe timing, but I couldn't get into Liar's Club. She is the mother of memoir as a genre. I didn't love every poem in this collection, but put stars that look more like dandelion heads gone to seed next to a few. Here's one I marked. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all.
The parched earth's bare once she leaves it of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by; Not one's a god.
Apr 30, Logan Howard rated it it was amazing. Mary Karr is known for her quick wit and exciting descriptions from an impossible cynical point of view.
That being said, she is very much able to draw hope and resolution from a surprisingly bleak point of view. From her life as a child, darkened and bruised, to an irreverent Christian who can impress even the most devout worshiper.
Her work has won many awards and while this is not the first collection of poems, it certainly deserves to be called her best work.
I have raised this book 5 stars Mary Karr is known for her quick wit and exciting descriptions from an impossible cynical point of view. I have raised this book 5 stars for its powerful themes and excellent descriptions. For anybody who likes to read, even you hate poetry, this book is worth your time. Dec 10, Mitch Rogers rated it liked it. Here's a writer that I admire mightily two of her memoirs on my shelf at home as a testament to my faith in her writing a book I was fairly lukewarm toward.
I'm still waiting for that religious book that articulates my feelings, which is why I suppose the good Lord invented pencils and gave me glasses. Oct 04, Stephanie Green rated it liked it. It is brimming with her memories, stories and secrets all compiled into one fascinating book. She was directing this book of poetry towards sinners. What could these poems be about? Karr seemed to be welcoming and summoning you to read on.
I soon discovered her tormented childhood and her words that reflected her spiritual journey into Catholicism. Without much knowledge of her background this poetry was sometimes hard to devour and understand, but after a little research and a more thorough reading, I began to develop a clearer understanding. My British heritage came to life and I was suddenly absorbed into the poem.
Whether it is relatable or not, it is interesting to read. She shares so many struggles and stories in these 93 pages. Even though Karr did not put this in words, she managed to make us understand. I think this is a talent that Karr possesses, she can use few words, but in these few words she can say so much. What is special about this particular poem? These poems could help many religious and non-religious people learn to accept their sins and embrace their journey of finding themselves; just as Karr let us take passenger seat and watch her sinful yet spiritual journey unfold through the windshield as she finds herself.
Aug 07, Lina Lim rated it really liked it. Sinners Welcome consists of emotional, powerful, and compelling poems that draw the readers into the book. Although it may seem difficult to comprehend at first, you will soon realize that you are empathizing with Mary Karr, if you've ever had the experience of a loss of something meaningful and important.
I was surprised and somewhat shocked at her use of diction and comparisons to describe the situation. It st Sinners Welcome consists of emotional, powerful, and compelling poems that draw the readers into the book.
It starts by comparing the globe to a "quadrangled" board, where "you" sometimes feel as though you were mere pushpins.
And this is true, since I also sometimes felt too small in the wide world. Using alliteration and vivid imagery, Karr builds the events following her friend's death, that explain for her feeling "impossibly small". She writes of how everything seemed to be "glazed in place", as if time had stopped.
The setting is cold, and therefore it is as if everything is frozen. However, once the funeral is over, the time ticks too quickly and forces the author to admit that it is over. A friend's death had become so insignificant over time to the world. Having experienced death of a close relative and a friend's mother, I had to agree with the poem. Another poem that made a strong impression on me was "This Lesson You've Got".
The poem teachers the readers that everyone else learns from life what you learn, and that you are never an exception to something. Once you're "born", we're all equal and same. But Karr twists it at the end as if she -- representing "we" -- is the exception: "Other than myself, of course", but quickly twists it back again with the phrase, "Everyone does, it turns out".
She ends the poem with a simple but powerful sentence, "Not one's a god". It is about a man she loves, who grew distant; the signs "Insert coin", "Mind the gap", and "Do not disturb" all serve to emphasize his change of attitude.
While eating, the cook's window with "steam smearing" reminds her of the time when she left the airport on the plane, and how the windows glass turned to "a pearly cataract".
She hasn't checked his email, which will definitely hurt him as she learned from the Bible, and she concedes to the orders from the invisible: Press yes to erase. And finally, "Sinners Welcome" was both sad and funny at the same time -- overall, bitter. A woman gives all her mind to a man who is worthy of respect.
He would kneel to her and not fall into any temptations. However, she would never be together with him. It's almost a spontaneous reaction: if they love, "joy sprouts from [them] as from a split seed", as in they must be separated. An interesting thing about her poems is that it could be interpreted in many other ways. My interpretations could not be in accordance with her original intentions, and I could interpret it the other way around the next time I read it.
For all these poems, I read them more than five times to really find out the significant symbols and words she crafted in. There's always one or two new meaning that you can find out each time you read them. Different interpretations, new ideas, deeper meanings. These aspects are what render her poems unique and powerful. Aug 06, Emily Song rated it it was amazing. Before reading this poetry, I had seriously no prior knowledge of who the author was, or what this poetry was going to be about—just that it is about the author, Mary Karr, who is going through quite a number of hardships, just as the summary stated.
However, even though it was difficult at first, there was so much more than just Karr So. However, even though it was difficult at first, there was so much more than just Karr telling her own stories to the authors. Other than the story-telling portion itself, all of the poems included in this book holds the lessons and all the background that led to such writing.
It truly was an insight of who Mary Karr as a person encountered in her lifetime. However, there are the latent portion of how all these events from her childhood and her awful moments in life is her connection and rather spiritual journey towards Catholicism.
The book is filled with great imageries, descriptive pictures of what Karr has gone through, and how the events in her life somehow made her unexpectedly Catholic. Whilst reading this poem, there were several poems that stuck to my mind.
She strictly and coldly states that everyone will eventually come to moments where they realize they have grief for potentially everything they encounter in their lives. This specific poem was a good indication showing how she learned these lessons through the rather hard way than others. By writing a lot more narrative about her son, it really gave me the idea of who she is as a mom, than look at her through the lens of religion.
Overall, this whole book contain poetry that are quite straight-forward. I did not have so much difficulty understanding what the significance of the title was compared to the content of the poems.
However, once I read some of the poems more than once, the latent meanings of what the poems really convey becomes more apparent. Maybe all sinners are welcomed by the world, and we just do not see it as clearly. Aug 05, Alexis Kang rated it liked it.
Domestic tension, faith and confusion within, and confession to her own shortcomings. These three key elements defines the direction of Karr's poems.
Her poetry invites readers to reflect upon themselves with powerful imagery, sincerely melancholy tone, and her distinctly dense, complex, and personal voice throughout the entire collection, but the meanings and the story behind her poems don't reveal themselves until further into the book. Because of this feature, I didn't start off liking her po Domestic tension, faith and confusion within, and confession to her own shortcomings. My opinion was entirely changed once I reached "Disgraceland.
My favorite in this collection was "Hypertrophied Football Star as a Serial Killer," one of her longer poems in which I believe Karr flexed her creativity and perspective muscles. He ended limping into slosh. Karr's strengths are in her robust and moving word choice, her metaphors, and her signature eerily haunting closings. Overall, her poetry seems too advanced for me to even fully comprehend its depth, but simply put, the words on the page melt off into pools of beautiful emotion.
Saves whom? The recipient? The giver? Or is there something about a truly just community that takes us out of the roles of giver and receiver so that no one is always the helper or only the helped, but makes us all partners in the life-giving dance. It is not any one instance, but the ongoing interplay of justice that saves from death, and to engage in that dance we need those others as partners. Is justice too hard, too demanding? Especially at this time of year, when we ask God to shift from the aspect of righteousness to the aspect of mercy, of loving-kindess.
And loving-kindess, as well, has a life-giving quality. Rachamim is the very instrument of revitalization; it is what God uses to give life to the dead. The Jewish philosopher Emanuel Levinas picked up on the fact that the word rachamim is connected to the word rechem, womb. So, too, the revitalizing feeling of being accepted as other as well. We can be revived by practicing rachamim as well as by receiving it, but again, we need the other to make it happen.
Judaism has nothing like that, certainly not since the destruction of the Temple. There is a temptation when people hear this to think that this suggests a discipline of trying to see through, or past, all the weird non-Godness of the other, to see that Divine spark we all share, unsullied by those particulars that distinguish You from Me.
On the contrary: it is in the very distinctiveness of the other that we are invited to recognize God.
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