Poetry as SurvivalUniversity of Georgia Press, 1. 12. 2010 - 242 strán (strany) 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 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. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world. |
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... Song I 2 3 4 S 6 7 Poised on a Mountain Peak, Floating on the Ocean 13 The Dinner Party and the Sailor at War 24 The Embodied Self 37 The Edge as Threshold 51 Bags Full of Havoc 59 The Two Survivals 8 3 The Powers of Poetry 9 3 PART Two ...
... . What's more, members of all these cultures feel free to write it down or compose it aloud as song or chant, whether they are from tribes in the equatorial rain forests or Inuit and Eskimo in the INTRODUCTION: Everywhere and Always.
... Songs or The Book of Odes was also transmitted orally for several centuries before being written down almost 2,500 years ago. Many of these ancient Chinese poems are lyrics that speak about things that still matter in our lives, like ...
... songs are as coherent or sophisticated in their patterning as poems written for the page—that's a different story, since much of a song's meaning is carried by rhythm and melody. I am saying that the particular songs that you love ...
... songs I loved intensely, songs that I felt expressed and channeled the powerful and inchoate feelings that churned inside me. I say "rock and roll" and I mean the whole field of popular song. My parents' generation survived on lyrics by ...
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Trauma and Transformation | 115 |
Sacred and Secular Lyric | 209 |
The Social Lyric and the Personal Lyric | 213 |
Incarnating Eros | 225 |
Index | 231 |