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The Blessing: A Memoir
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Hardcover
from Council Oaks Distribution (August 1, 2002)
9781571781116 | details & prices | 256 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $24.95
About: The author describes how he accidentally shot and killed his brother at the age of twelve, the failure of his parents to help him through his grief and despair, and how his discovery of poetry helped to rescue and sustain him.
About: The author describes how he accidentally shot and killed his brother at the age of twelve, the failure of his parents to help him through his grief and despair, and how his discovery of poetry helped to rescue and sustain him.
Paperback
from Council Oaks Distribution (March 1, 2004)
9781571781413 | details & prices | 256 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.95
About: "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 onâ¦Here, the old and new meanings of 'blessing' - to sprinkle with blood, to confer spiritual power - harrowingly collide.
About: "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 onâ¦Here, the old and new meanings of 'blessing' - to sprinkle with blood, to confer spiritual power - harrowingly collide.