Product Description: very interesting book

Poems deal with loneliness, strangers, the past, children, parenthood, guilt, the Civil Rights movement, exile, death, religion, and friendship

Product Description: A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflections on his craft and his fellow writers.

Product Description: This volume of poems is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emtion which are anchored in clearly dramatised events. The poems are of elegy and celebration and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.

Product Description: Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art

Product Description: Book by Orr, Gregory

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Product Description: "The inadvertent shooting death of his brother by poet Orr gives this memoir a god-awful specific gravity and spurs the author's search for ways to live on…Here, the old and new meanings of 'blessing' - to sprinkle with blood, to confer spiritual power - harrowingly collide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences.As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.

Product Description: “[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.”—Publishers Weekly“[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent—not God, but the beloved—that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time...read more

Product Description: "Jerusalem" is a stucco cottageFilled at all hours with angels,Devils, and assorted orphansWho dance and drinkAnd hand-tint engravings.Blake himself is up in the atticNight and day—Even in eternity, he's still scribbling.Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry...read more

Product Description: “A striking meditation on art’s free-standing place in the natural world.”―Cortland Review From the acclaimed American poet whose work the San Francisco Review called “mystical, carnal, reflective, wry” come three gorgeous poetic sequences...read more