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Poetry as Survival: Life of Poetry

Autor Gregory Orr
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2002
An analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws on an array of sources, from Keats, Dickinson and Whitman to three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems.
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ISBN-13: 9780820324289
ISBN-10: 0820324280
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 148 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Georgia Press
Seria Life of Poetry


Notă biografică

GREGORY ORR is the author of such highly praised poetry collections as Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved and The Caged Owl as well as a memoir, The Blessing, which was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the fifty best nonfiction books of 2002. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003 he was presented with the Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr is a professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1975 and where he was the founder and first director of its MFA in Writing program.