{"product_id":"the-devils-tour-paperback","title":"The Devil's Tour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 51\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 7.95 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689658093631,"sku":"9780811212311","price":15.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/81fdd5f471e1a28991d3c147d5731bdb.webp?v=1764986251","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-devils-tour-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}