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Review of ‘Tropic of Squalor’

Mary Karr has made a life, a brilliant one, of telling stories about herself, from her scrappy Texas childhood to getting sober and converting to Catholicism in adulthood. Karr’s fifth collection of poetry reveals one of the strongest voices in contemporary letters in conversation with itself, pushing back against the constructed self, ever more aware of…

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