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The Blessing: A Memoir
Published in Hardcover by Council Oak Distribution (2002)
Author: Gregory Orr
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Powerful
Orr's book is an amazing chronicle of his early years, and an essential window into how art - in this case poetry - can play an important role in survival and transformation. The writing is clear and forceful. Highly recommended for anyone interested in memoir.


Gathering the bones together : [poems]
Published in Unknown Binding by Harper & Row ()
Author: Gregory Orr
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magical
Gregory Orr is an incredible writer capable of making impossible images seem like they are your own memory. He is too little known for such a talent. Easily my favorite book of poetry.


Orpheus & Eurydice
Published in Paperback by Copper Canyon Press (01 February, 2001)
Author: Gregory Orr
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Average Poetry
I was very disapointed in this book. However, that disapointment is not necessarily the author's fault, but my own. I wanted to learn something new about Orpheus & Eurydice. Instead, I got a short, padded, overpriced book of average poetry, with no background information or any sort of explanation of the subject. Those who are looking for romantic poetry may get something out of this, but my copy went directly to the recycle box.

A student's praise
Orr is currently my poetry instructor, and he read a few of these poems in my Classical Literature classes here at UVA. I might add that his hushed, musical way of reading the poems makes these lyrics even more transcendent than they already are. I have to say that this book is one of the most honed, compelling and moving collection of lyrics written on the violent, transforming nature of romantic love I have ever read. Yes, the Orpheus myth has been attempted by many of our major poets, but Orr approaches the story with such a clear-eyed and fresh approach, telling us in his quiet, rhythmic meditations the sharpness of heartbreak, the fragility of earthly love, the madness of O's lonely wandering. The Orpheus and Eurydice story becomes a metaphor for intense, unhinged love that transforms lovers into gods and goddesses, the kind of love that sends the madman-lover careening through both heaven and hell. Orr is a master of the lyric, and after reading this book I could not believe I was so lucky to be his student.

Doing Justice to the Myth
What I want with each retelling, whether it be a nursery rhyme or one of my grandfather's war stories, is something fresh and different. I love, of course, rereading my favorite books and poems, but with a tale like that of Orpheus and Eurydice, I'm simply not looking for the same story. I want a new perspective, not only a retelling, but a reshaping of the myth. Orr puts his own spirit into what many of you may know of as the tragic lives of the two lovers. He writes, however, from a place unlike most before him. With the same joy as seeing a film remade with exceptional talent, I read Orr's work with excitement and pleasure. It's not the same story. It's much more.


Burning the Empty Nests
Published in Paperback by Carnegie Mellon University (1997)
Author: Gregory Orr
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Burning the Empty Nests: Poems
Published in Hardcover by HarperCollins (1973)
Author: Gregory Orr
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The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
Published in Paperback by Copper Canyon Press (2002)
Author: Gregory Orr
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City of Salt (Pitt Poetry Series (Cloth))
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt) (1995)
Author: Gregory Orr
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New and Selected Poems
Published in Hardcover by Wesleyan Univ Pr (1987)
Author: Gregory Orr
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Poetry as Survival
Published in Paperback by University of Georgia Press (29 October, 2002)
Author: Gregory Orr
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Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World
Published in Paperback by University of Michigan Press (1996)
Authors: Gregory Orr and Ellen Bryant Voigt
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