{"product_id":"poetry-as-survival-paperback","title":"Poetry as Survival - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Orr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Survival\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGregory 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Survival\u003c\/i\u003e is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory 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 Endowment for the Arts. In 2003 he was presented with the Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr is a professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1975 and where he was the founder and first director of its MFA in Writing program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45283980640300,"sku":"9780820324289","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/QkJHY3VWTDNIOFRNd0ZCZ3pvM095Zz09.webp?v=1770997964","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/poetry-as-survival-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}