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Books by Gregory Orr
  | | A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry(1st Edition) by Gregory Orr Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-25392-4, ISBN: 0-393-25392-9 "An innovative and accessible guide to poetry writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor.A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides young poets toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their lives, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Structuring the presentation from life toward art, Orr urges poets to “turn worlds into words” and then give those words a dramatic structure.Using such ..." |
 | | The Blessing(Reprint) A Memoir by Gregory Orr Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-386-7, ISBN: 1-57131-386-9 "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 brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermath―a period of shock, sadness, and isolation―it quickly became clear that support and gui ..." |
 | | Poets Teaching Poets(1st Edition) Self and the World by Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06621-6, ISBN: 0-472-06621-8 "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 Warren Wilson, including acclaimed poets Joan Aleshire, Marianne Boruch, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Reginald Gibbons, Louise Glü ck, Allen Gr ..." |
 | | The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write(1st Edition) Poems by Gregory Orr Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00235-2, ISBN: 1-324-00235-2 "A "master of the lyric poem" (Paris Review) at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love.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 ..." |
 | | Poetry as Survival(1st Edition) (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2428-9, ISBN: 0-8203-2428-0 "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 th ..." |
 | | River Inside the River(1st Edition) Poems by Gregory Orr Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34995-5, ISBN: 0-393-34995-0 "“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. 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 ..." |
 | | River Inside the River(1st Edition) Poems by Gregory Orr Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-23974-4, ISBN: 0-393-23974-8 "Three gorgeous poetic sequences that combine the intensity of lyric with the thematic scope and range of narrative and myth. 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 ..." |
 | | The Blessing(2nd Edition) A Memoir by Gregory Orr Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Council Oak Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57178-141-3, ISBN: 1-57178-141-2 ""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." - Kirkus Review" |
 | | The Blessing(1st Edition) A Memoir by Gregory Orr Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Council Oak Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57178-111-6, ISBN: 1-57178-111-0 ""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." - Kirkus Review" |
 | | How Beautiful the Beloved(1st Edition) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2009 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-283-6, ISBN: 1-55659-283-3 "“[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 Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting or oratory.' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a ..." |
 | | Richer Entanglements(1st Edition) Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (Poets on Poetry) by Gregory Orr Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06525-7, ISBN: 0-472-06525-4 "A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflections on his craft and his fellow writers." |
 | | New and Selected Poems(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Gregory Orr Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 1987 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1141-6, ISBN: 0-8195-1141-2 "Poems deal with loneliness, strangers, the past, children, parenthood, guilt, the Civil Rights movement, exile, death, religion, and friendship" |
 | | City Of Salt(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Gregory Orr Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5557-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5557-1 "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 Must Make a Kingdom of it(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1986 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6147-3, ISBN: 0-8195-6147-9 "very interesting book" |
 | | The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh, Donald D. Walsh, Gregory Orr Paperback, 151 Pages, Published 2004 by New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1580-0, ISBN: 0-8112-1580-6 "New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. The Captain's Verses was first published anonymously in 1952, some years before Neruda married Matilde Urrutia - the one with "the fire / of an unchained meteor" - to whom he had addre ..." |
 | | The Life of Poetry Poets on Their Art and Craft Ser.: Poetry As Survival by Gregory Orr Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of Georgia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2427-2, ISBN: 0-8203-2427-2 "Diane j. Raynor) In its dignity and emotional reserve and its concern with locating the deceased in terms of place of origin, the above exemplifies the best of the social lyric. By contrast, here is another badly fragmented elegy for Baukis also written by Erinna. You have to read across great gaps of lost language, but the different emotional tone of it will be clearly apparent, and it is this intimate and individual tone that ide ..." |
 | | City of Salt (Pitt Poetry Series) by Gregory Orr Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-3876-7, ISBN: 0-8229-3876-6 |
 | | Gathering the bones together [poems] by Gregory Orr 66 Pages, Published 1975 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-013269-9, ISBN: 0-06-013269-8 |
 | | Superstructures of the World Eurotunnel [VHS] by Andrew Thomas, Alec Schechter, Jeff Scheftel, Richard Wortman, Steven Talley, Gregory Orr, Mark Hamill, John Frank Rosenblum, directed by Andrew Thomas Vhs Tape, Published 1998 by Allumination Color, Ntsc ISBN-13: 978-1-57523-362-8, ISBN: 1-57523-362-2 |
 | | Poets Teaching Poets Self and the World by Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Of Michigan Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09621-3, ISBN: 0-472-09621-4 "One side of things, and then the other. ... "An Interview with Sylvia Plath," a recording made for the British Broadcasting Corporation, October 1962. ... American Poetry Review (Nov/Dec 1984): 10-11. Plath, Otto. Bumblebees and their Ways. New York: MacMillan, 1934. Plath, Sylvia. ... Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts. ... New York: Harper and Row, 1977." |
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