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Stanley Kunitz
An Introduction to the Poetry
Av Gregory Orr
Inbunden, 1985
1767 kr
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Orr explores the biographical sources of Kunitz's work, the strategies by which he achieves his aim of converting life into legend, and the theory and tactic of the dramatic lyric, the poetic form Kunitz has practiced and perfected over the course of a lifetime.
Primer for Poets
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2018
195 kr
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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, …
River Inside the River
Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2014
195 kr
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From this acclaimed American poet come three gorgeous poetic sequences. In the first, “Eden and After,” Gregory Orr retells the story of Adam and Eve. The second sequence, “The City of Poetry,” evokes and explores a visionary metropolis where “every poem is a house, and every house a poem.” The …
Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2021
181 kr
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In this moving, playful and deeply philosophical volume, Gregory Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. A passionate exploration of the forces that shape us, The Last Love Poem …
Poets Teaching Poets
Self and the World
Av Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt
Häftad, 1996
371 kr
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The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers has emerged as one of the most well-respected writing programs in the country, producing a generation of first-rate poets who are also deeply dedicated teachers of their art. Poets Teaching Poets collects essays by current and former lecturers at …
Poetry as Survival
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2002
514 kr
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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 …
City Of Salt
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 1995
297 kr
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City of Salt, Gregory Orr’s sixth book of poems, is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatized events. These are poems of elegy and celebration, and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.
We Interrupt This Broadcast
Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Inbunden, 2026
310 kr
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From a master lyric poet characterized by Mary Oliver as “a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman’s bunting and oratory” comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of public significance. Again and …
Orpheus & Eurydice
A Lyric Sequence
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2001
185 kr
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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 …
Caged Owl
New & Selected Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2002
211 kr
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Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct …
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2005
291 kr
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“The heart of Orr’s poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry.”— San Francisco Review This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. …
How Beautiful the Beloved
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2009
279 kr
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Joy, in all its radiance and risk, is the lifeblood of this ambitious, transcendent, lyrical suite
Blessing
A Memoir
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2019
227 kr
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Hailed on its original publication as "eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man's life" (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.When acclaimed poet Gregory Orr was twelve years old, he shot and killed his …
Caged Owl
New & Selected Poems
Av Gregory Orr
E-bok, 2012
149 kr
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Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct …
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Av Gregory Orr
E-bok, 2012
143 kr
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“The heart of Orr’s poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry.”— San Francisco Review This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. …
Orpheus & Eurydice
A Lyric Sequence
Av Gregory Orr
E-bok, 2012
198 kr
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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 …
How Beautiful the Beloved
Av Gregory Orr
E-bok, 2012
153 kr
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“[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 …
Selected Books of the Beloved
Av Gregory Orr
E-bok, 2022
275 kr
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An expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved. For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Book:” an imagined tome containing every poem and song ever written. Drawing from a rich tradition of …
River Inside the River
Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Inbunden, 2013
248 kr
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From the acclaimed American poet whose work the San Francisco Review called “mystical, carnal, reflective, wry” come three gorgeous poetic sequences. In the first, “Eden and After,” Gregory Orr retells the story of Adam and Eve. The second sequence, “The City of Poetry,” evokes and explores a …
Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
Poems
Av Gregory Orr
Inbunden, 2019
261 kr
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In this moving, playful, and deeply philosophical volume, Gregory Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. A passionate exploration of the forces that shape us, The Last Love …
City of Poetry
Av Gregory Orr
Häftad, 2012
118 kr
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"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 dayEven in eternity, he's still scribbling.Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry. The recipient of …
