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This book is the culmination of Orr's decade-and-a-half-long exploration of "The Book" of the beloved, an imaginary anthology that contains all the poems ever written Copper Canyon Press has published five books by Gregory Orr When Orr was twelve, he accidentally killed his brother in a hunting accident-which has since influenced his entire life and career For Orr, poetry has been the way he has healed from the grief and trauma of his past....

In this moving, playful, and deeply philosophical volume, acclaimed poet Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Slipping effortlessly from personal trauma ("Song of What Happens") to public catastrophe ("Charlottesville Elegy"), 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. The Last Love Po...

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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.

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 I Will Ever Write explores themes of survival and the powerlessness of the self in a chaotic and unfair world, finding hope in the emotions and vi...

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 final sequence, "River Inside the River, " focuses on redemption through the mysterious power of language to resurrect the beloved and recover what i...

Gregory Orr's ambitious and visionary lyrics explores every dimension of what it is to be human

This volume of poems is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion 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.

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 visionary metropolis where "every poem is a house, and every house a poem." The final sequence, "River Inside the River, " focuses on redemption throug...

Orr imagines poetry as a city constructed of its forms and forebears, its terrain all that can be imagined.

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

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 of revision, ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry, and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.

Joy, in all its radiance and risk, is the lifeblood of this ambitious, transcendent, lyrical suite

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 writ...

Long-awaited selected poems from a poet who shapes what threatens to misshape him.

A masterful poet re-envisions the myth of Orpheus's descent into Hades, in search of Eurydice.