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  | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX(1st Edition) Virginia Volume 9 (Paperback) by William Wright, J. Bruce Fuller, Amy Wright, Jesse Graves, Darnell Arnoult Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2022 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-195-9, ISBN: 1-68003-195-3 |
 | | The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write Poems by Gregory Orr 112 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00236-9, ISBN: 1-324-00236-0 "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." |
 | | The Blessing A Memoir by Gregory Orr 169 Pages, Published 2019 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-722-3, ISBN: 1-57131-722-8 "Throughout The Blessing, Orr articulates his journey in language as lyrical as it is authentic, gifting us all with a singular tale of survival, and of the transformation of suffering into art." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr 256 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-25393-1, ISBN: 0-393-25393-7 "In Steve's workshop I was given permission to write about that life. I was working class. I was a woman. I was a mother. Could this mundane, ordinary world be a subject for my poetry? from her Foreword to Steven Kowitt's In the Palm of Your Hand, here And, of course, the answer to Laux's question is yes. This is one of the important things poetry does for all poets—helps them lay claim to the life they live and turn it into vivid w ..." |
 | | How Beautiful the Beloved by Gregory Orr Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1-306-56395-6, ISBN: 1-306-56395-X |
 | | 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 Poems by Gregory Orr 160 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24044-3, ISBN: 0-393-24044-4 "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." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr 200 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-064-2, ISBN: 1-61932-064-9 "7 Everything dies. Nothing dies. That's the story of the Book. If the Bookwere a bird Those two sentences Would be its wings. Nothing dies. Everything dies. If the Bookwere a fish They would be its fins. But the Book is the body Of the beloved: ..." |
 | | The Caged Owl New and Selected Poems by Gregory Orr 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-063-5, ISBN: 1-61932-063-0 "... but of Porchia himself I knew only the few, rather indefinite details in the introduction to Roger Caillois's French translation. ... Vogelmann was evidently a kind and generous person, but the businesslike nature of the correspondence with him ..." |
 | | Orpheus and Eurydice A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-065-9, ISBN: 1-61932-065-7 "The Press thrives with the generous patronage of readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, teachers, and students — everyone who ... the Arts Jaech Family Foundation Lannan Foundation Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Fund reader's circle Anonymous Thatcher Bailey ... and Christopher Latham Rhoady and Jeanne Marie Lee Peter Lewis, Campagne William and Kristine O'Daly Karen Swenson Jim and ..." |
 | | How Beautiful the Beloved by Gregory Orr 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-067-3, ISBN: 1-61932-067-3 "' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a poetry of image, but of ideas, perfectly distilled." |
 | | Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr 242 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4011-1, ISBN: 0-8203-4011-1 "In a victim story, the self is implausibly asserted to be in control in a crisis, and disorder is thus held at bay. In a "blame story," the self makes up or subscribes to a story in which the disorder afflicting the self is "really" not random or accidental, but the result consciously intended by a powerful individual or group. Here again, the disorder is tamed, is shown to be only apparently chaotic, but actually/ secretly under t ..." |
 | | NINTH LETTER Vol. 2 No. 1(1st Edition) (Spring/Summer 2005) by Anne Mcclean, Steve Almond, Jane Benson, Jodee Stanley, Gregory Orr, Stephen Dobyns, Robert Cohen, Joshua Edwards, Lisa Williams, Et Al Paperback, Published 2005 by University Of Illinois, Urbana, Il ISBN-13: 978-0-9752741-2-5, ISBN: 0-9752741-2-0 |
 | | 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" |
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