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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Gregory Orr. The Lfl'e ofPoetry POETS ON THEIR ART AND CRAFT Poetry as Survival GREGORY ORR The University (j Ceoqgia Press.
... poet, I've always hated the fact that poetry often intimidates people. Many people I know feel that poetry is a test they can only pass if they are smart enough or sensitive enough, and most fear they will fail. Many refuse the test ...
... poet of the personal lyric at the very beginning of Greek literature, namely Sappho, most of the Western lyric tradition up until the Romantics consists of what I call "social lyrics" and "sacred lyrics" (in appendixes A and B these ...
... poet and outlaw Francois Villon asked in his lament that lists the names of celebrated beauties who, even as he wrote, were fading along with their fame. I look forward into the unknown. I look backward and the mo— ment I just inhabited ...
... poet Robert Duncan put it: as if it were a given property of the mind that certain bounds hold against chaos. ("Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow"). Shooting. Flares. into. the. Future. Imagine that you are going somewhere toward ...
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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 |