POETRY AS SURVIVAL by Orr, Gregory - 2002

University of Georgia Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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 experienced considerable trauma―especially as a… Read More

University of Georgia Press, 2002-11-18. 1st Paperback Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Univ of Georgia Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. An analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws on an array of sources, from Keats, Dickinson and Whitman to three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems.

University of Georgia Press, 2002-11-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!