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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent\u0026mdash;not God, but the beloved\u0026mdash;that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c/I\u003e, \u0026ldquo;Editor\u0026rsquo;s Choice\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mary Oliver calls him '...a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting or oratory.' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a poetry of image, but of ideas, perfectly distilled. Orr brings together the monumental themes of love and loss in small, spare, and exquisite koan-like poems.\"\u003cI\u003e\u0026mdash;ForeWord\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...magnetic poems that open the world of lyrical verse to the larger questions of what is true and timeless.\"\u003cBR\u003e \u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eThe Bloomsbury Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Orr continues his acclaimed project on the \u0026ldquo;beloved\u0026rdquo; with a lyrical sequence about the joys and hungers of being fully engaged in life. Through concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love. Mary Oliver has called this project \u0026ldquo;gorgeous,\u0026rdquo; and said that he \"speaks of the events that have no larger or more important rival in our lives\u0026mdash;of our love and our loving.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eIf to say it once\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eAnd once only, then still\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eTo say: Yes.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eAnd say it complete,\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eSay it as if the word\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eFilled the whole moment\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eWith its absolute saying.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eLater for \u0026ldquo;but,\u0026rdquo; \u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eLater for \u0026ldquo;if.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eNow\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eOnly the single syllable\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eThat is the beloved.\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eThat is the world.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eGregory Orr\u003c/B\u003e is the author of ten books of poetry. He teaches at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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