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\u003cdiv\u003eGregory Orr\u0026#8217;s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother\u0026#8217;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\u0026#8217;s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eThis long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable poet, whose poems have been described as \"mystical, carnal, reflective, and wry.\" (\u003cI\u003eSan Francisco Review\u003c/I\u003e)\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"Love Poem\"\u003cBR\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA black biplane crashes through the window\u003cBR\u003e of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down,\u003cBR\u003e removing his leather hood.\u003cBR\u003e He hands me my grandmother\u0026#8217;s jade ring.\u003cBR\u003e No, it is two robin\u0026#8217;s eggs and\u003cBR\u003e a telephone number: yours.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Gathering the Bones Together\"\u003cBR\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A father and his four sons\u003cBR\u003e run down a slope toward\u003cBR\u003e a deer they just killed.\u003cBR\u003e the father and two sons carry\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e rifles. They laugh, jostle,\u003cBR\u003e and chatter together.\u003cBR\u003e A gun goes off\u003cBR\u003e and the youngest brother\u003cBR\u003e falls to the ground.\u003cBR\u003e A boy with a rifle\u003cBR\u003e stands beside him,\u003cBR\u003e screaming\u0026#133;\u003cBR\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Orr\u0026#8217;s is an immaculate style of latent violence and inhibited tenderness, charged with a desperate intensity whose source is often obscure.\"--\u003cI\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eGregory Orr is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three books of criticism. He is the editor at \u003cI\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c/I\u003e, teaches at the University of Virginia, and lives with his wife and daughters in Charlottesville. In 2002, along with his selected poems \u003cI\u003eThe Caged Owl\u003c/I\u003e, he will also publish a memoir and a book about poetry writing: \u003cI\u003eThree Strange Angels: Trauma and Transformation in Lyric Poetry.\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eAlso Available by Gregory Orr:\u003cBR\u003e \u003cI\u003eOrpheus \u0026 Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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