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Reviewed on January 15, 2006
Poetry "was most crucially the first source of awe for me, partly because it could ease my sense of isolation," notes Karr (best known for her memoir The Liar's Club) in the essay "Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer," which acts as an afterword to this collection. Karr converted to Catholicism in 1996, "after a lifetime of undiluted agnosticism," and many of the poems embrace God with an intensity born out of violence...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
