Poetry as Survival - Paperback
by Gregory Orr
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gregory OrrSeries:Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and CraftPublish date:2002-11-18Pages:242
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820324289ISBN-10:820324280UPC:9780820324289Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, American, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV9X5H5MM
Poetry as Survival
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...Series: Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820324289ISBN-10:820324280UPC:9780820324289Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, American, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCV9X5H5MM
Gregory Orr is the author of such highly praised poetry collections as "Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved" and "The Caged Owl" as well as a memoir, "The Blessing," which was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the fifty best nonfiction books of 2002. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and two poetry fellowships from the National...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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