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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... 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, thoughts, and memories. Introdurtion 3.
... memories haunt us and fantasies play themselves out at will on our inner mental screens. We are creatures whose volatile inner lives are both mysterious to us and beyond our control. How to respond to the strangeness and ...
... memory image of a house where we both were, and a sad feeling, and then one of longing, and now something else, and a voice is talking inside me also, chattering along as if it were a radio commentator. And all of this taking place in ...
... memory images and a voice jabbering away like a twenty-four-hour-a-day radio station. I call this interior chaos the Buried Self because so little of it gets out. When we say "I spoke my mind about that," we don't mean that we expressed ...
... memory is extremely fallible and that the vivid accounts of even the most alert eyewitnesses are riddled with errors and inaccuracies. How many of us have compared our own memory of a past family event with that of a sibling or parent ...
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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 |