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Virginia Quarterly Review, 2006
A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflections on his craft and his fellow writers.
How lyric poetry transforms frauma; Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of... more How lyric poetry transforms frauma; 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 writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experi...
... a poet's insights into a very complex, very powerful older poet and that in opening up f... more ... a poet's insights into a very complex, very powerful older poet and that in opening up for us the rich po-etry of Stanley Kunitz, Orr helps us understand the structure of poetry itselfnot just Kunitz' poetry or Orr's own but ... Excerpt from Sylvia Plath's "Words" © 1965 by Ted Hughes. ...
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Virginia Quarterly Review, 2006
A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflections on his craft and his fellow writers.
How lyric poetry transforms frauma; Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of... more How lyric poetry transforms frauma; 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 writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experi...
... a poet's insights into a very complex, very powerful older poet and that in opening up f... more ... a poet's insights into a very complex, very powerful older poet and that in opening up for us the rich po-etry of Stanley Kunitz, Orr helps us understand the structure of poetry itselfnot just Kunitz' poetry or Orr's own but ... Excerpt from Sylvia Plath's "Words" © 1965 by Ted Hughes. ...