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A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr (University of Virginia)
Category: Languages and Reference
This primer guides young poets towards a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while introducing the art in an exciting new way. It provides writing exercises and explains topics such as the personal and cultural threshold, the four forces that animate poetic language, tactics ...Show more
How Beautiful the Beloved by Gregory Orr
Category: Poetry
" 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."--The Virginia Quarterly Review, "Editor's Choice""Mary Oliver calls him '...a ...Show more
Orpheus & Eurydice : A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr
Category: Poetry & Plays
How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory Orr uses ...Show more
Poetry As Survival by Gregory Orr
Category: Poetry | Series: The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft
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 w ...Show more
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