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Books by Professor Gregory Orr
  | | The City of Poetry (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2012 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936747-29-0, ISBN: 1-936747-29-4 ""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 day—Even in eternity, he's still scribbling.Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry. The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships, he has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violenc ..." |
 | | Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved(1st Edition) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2005 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-229-4, ISBN: 1-55659-229-9 "“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. Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration of the “Book,” an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of al ..." |
 | | The Caged Owl New & Selected Poems by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-177-8, ISBN: 1-55659-177-2 "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 poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.This long-awaited collection is soulful work from a re ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Orpheus & Eurydice A Lyric Sequence by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-151-8, ISBN: 1-55659-151-9 "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 as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which r ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Burning the Empty Nests(Reprint) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, Published 1997 by Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-250-2, ISBN: 0-88748-250-3 "Book by Orr, Gregory" |
 | | 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" |
 | | We Must Make a Kingdom of It We Must Make a Kingdom of It We Must Make a Kingdom of It We Must Make a Kingdom of It We Must Make A K by Professor Gregory Orr Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1986 by Wesleyan Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-5143-6, ISBN: 0-8195-5143-0 |
 | | Stanley Kunitz(1st Edition) An Introduction to the Poetry by Professor Gregory Orr Hardcover, 297 Pages, Published 1985 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-05234-4, ISBN: 0-231-05234-0 "1955 Edits, with Vineta Colby, Twentieth-Century Authors: First Supplement. 1955-1956 Appointed poet-in-residence, University of Washington, Seattle. 1956 Receives Levinson Prize, Poetry magazine. ... of Arts and Letters award. 1961 Receives Honorary Doctor of Letters degree, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. 1963 Appointed lecturer at Columbia University School of General Studies; since 1967, adjunct professor of writing ..." |
 | | The red house(1st Edition) by Professor Gregory Orr Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1980 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-013297-2, ISBN: 0-06-013297-3 |
 | | The Red House by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, Published 1980 by Harpercollins (Paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-06-090820-1, ISBN: 0-06-090820-3 |
 | | Gathering the bones together(1st Edition) [poems] by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1975 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-013268-2, ISBN: 0-06-013268-X "poetry." |
 | | Burning the Empty Nests(1st Edition) by Professor Gregory Orr Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 1973 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-013243-9, ISBN: 0-06-013243-4 "Book by Orr Gregory" |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Reflections on the Pandemic Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed (Paperback or Softback) by Teresa Politano, Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Kimberly Camp Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2024 by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick Nj ISBN-13: 978-1-978831-09-4, ISBN: 1-978831-09-9 |
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