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Orr is the author of several volumes of essays, criticism, and nonfiction. In Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002), he explores poetry’s role in confronting and surviving pain and suffering.
Gregory Orr (born 1947 in Albany, New York, United States) is an American poet. Gregory Orr speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, April 9, 2018.
GREGORY ORR is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the forthcoming How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and the recent booklength lyric sequence Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
Orr is a professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA program in writing in 1975. From 1978 to 2003, he was poetry editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review . He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Aug 12, 2019 · Gregory Orr. Gregory Orr is the author of more than ten collections of poems, including, most recently, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write. He is also the author of several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, including Poetry as Survival and A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry.
Sep 12, 2013 · Over four decades, Gregory Orr has established his reputation as a master of the lyric poem. Throughout his career, which also includes books of essays and criticism and an award-winning memoir, Orr has primarily written short free-verse poems, but in the past decade he has turned to writing long sequences comprising of short poems in such ...
Gathering the Bones Together. By Gregory Orr. for Peter Orr. When all the rooms of the house. fill with smoke, it’s not enough. to say an angel is sleeping on the chimney. 1. a night in the barn. The deer carcass hangs from a rafter. Wrapped in blankets, a boy keeps watch.
By Gregory Orr. Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish, and frogs. They do us no harm when we swim. But early this spring two Canada geese. lingered, then built a nest. What I’d. heard of, our neighbor feared: goslings, as they paddle about, grabbed from below.
Feb 21, 2006 · Gregory Orr has taught English at the University of Virginia since 1975. He is the author of nine poetry collections and the recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Orr lives in...
Gregory Orr explores the carnal ache of living and loving in this equable, full-bodied and flowing collection. Through his concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love, of pain transformed to beauty.
