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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... Experience the world as confusing and chaotic, especially during crises. This confusion can be outside us, in the objective conditions of our social and political lives, or it can be inside us, in the swiftly shifting world of emotions ...
... experience, we are likely to become aware of a strong need we have to feel there is some order in the world that helps us feel safe and secure. Our day to day consciousness can be characterized as an endlessly shifting, back-and-forth ...
... experience. And Yet, The project of poem-making I wish to describe, this active taking-hold of one's emotional life, begins with a passive receptivity, which is vividly expressed by the final lines of a poem by D. H. Lawrence: What is ...
... experience. I grew up in the 1950s in the countryside of upstate New York and had had a rifle of my own since the age of ten. When I was twelve years old I was responsible for a hunting accident in which my younger brother died. To say ...
... but had they done so I doubt I would have gained any consolation or understanding from them. In my experience, the conceptualizations philosophy offers are not adequate to the sudden death of a loved one, nor the anguish Introdurrion 7.
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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 |