Gregory Orr's genius is the transformation of trauma into art.
Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother's death
during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during
the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of
desolation and violence. Orr's spare, succinct poems distill myth
from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual
detail.
This long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable
poet, whose poems have been described as "mystical, carnal,
reflective, and wry." ("San Francisco Review")
"Love Poem"
A black biplane crashes through the window
of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down,
removing his leather hood.
He hands me my grandmother's jade ring.
No, it is two robin's eggs and
a telephone number: yours.
from "Gathering the Bones Together"
A father and his four sons
run down a slope toward
a deer they just killed.
the father and two sons carry
rifles. They laugh, jostle,
and chatter together.
A gun goes off
and the youngest brother
falls to the ground.
A boy with a rifle
stands beside him,
screaming...
"Orr's is an immaculate style of latent violence and inhibited
tenderness, charged with a desperate intensity whose source is
often obscure."--"The New York Times Book Review"
Gregory Orr is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three
books of criticism. He is the editor at "Virginia Quarterly
Review," teaches at the University of Virginia, and lives with his
wife and daughters in Charlottesville. In 2002, along with his
selected poems "The Caged Owl," he will also publish a memoir and a
book about poetry writing: "Three Strange Angels: Trauma and
Transformation in Lyric Poetry."
Also Available by Gregory Orr:
"Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence"
TP $12.00, 1-55659-151-9 - CUSA
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