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Mary Karr

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    Catholic imagination
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    Mary Karr’s poetry collections Sinners Welcome (2006) and Tropic of Squalor (2018) are characterized by what she has described as a “descending theology” that centers on God’s descent into humanity and a corporeal vision of Christ. U.S. Marine veteran Phil Klay’s Catholic morality informs his…

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    Mary Karr’s poetry collections Sinners Welcome (2006) and Tropic of Squalor (2018) are characterized by what she has described as a “descending theology” that centers on God’s descent into humanity and a corporeal vision of Christ. U.S. Marine veteran Phil Klay’s Catholic morality informs his…

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