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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... culture on the planet at this moment, which means something like one thousand different cultures and three thousand different languages. All cultures on the globe have a conception of the personal lyric. What's more, members of all these ...
... culture we have been able to investigate. For all we can tell, poetry may be almost as ancient as the use of language itself. Certainly, when civilizations first made use of written language, poetry was among the first things chosen to ...
... culture "invented" or evolved the personal lyric as a means of helping individuals survive the existential crises represented by extremities of subjectivity and also by such outer circumstances as poverty, suffering, pain, illness ...
... culture much of popular music consists of what I would consider personal lyric poetry. I am not saying that the lyrics of popular songs are as coherent or sophisticated in their patterning as poems written for the page—that's a ...
... culture sustained me. Even my relationship with the natural world, which had been so important to me earlier, was not enough to alter my grief, despair, and guilt. Then, thanks to Mrs. Irving, the librarian in my small public school, I ...
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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 |