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â[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.ââPublishers Weekly
â[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendentânot God, but the belovedâthat we seem to slip into a less cluttered time.ââThe Virginia Quarterly Review, âEditorâs Choiceâ
"Mary Oliver calls him '...a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting or oratory.' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a poetry of image, but of ideas, perfectly distilled. Orr brings together the monumental themes of love and loss in small, spare, and exquisite koan-like poems."âForeWord
"...magnetic poems that open the world of lyrical verse to the larger questions of what is true and timeless."
âThe Bloomsbury Review
Gregory Orr continues his acclaimed project on the âbelovedâ with a lyrical sequence about the joys and hungers of being fully engaged in life. Through concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love. Mary Oliver has called this project âgorgeous,â and said that he "speaks of the events that have no larger or more important rival in our livesâof our love and our loving."
If to say it once
And once only, then still
To say: Yes.
And say it complete,
Say it as if the word
Filled the whole moment
With its absolute saying.
Later for âbut,â
Later for âif.â
Now
Only the single syllable
That is the beloved.
That is the world.
Gregory Orr is the author of ten books of poetry. He teaches at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.
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