Poetry as survival

by Orr, Gregory

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Full title :Poetry as survival / Gregory Orr.

Summary

Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil, from individual stress to collective grief. More specifically, he considers how the acts of writing, reading, and listening to lyric bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us. Moving into more contemporary work, Orr looks at the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Stanley Kunitz, and Theodore Roethke, poets who relied on their own work to get through painful psychological experiences. As a poet who has experienced considerable trauma--especially as a child--Orr refers to the damaging experiences of his past and to the role poetry played in his ability to recover and survive. His personal narrative makes all the more poignant and vivid Orr's claims for lyric poetry's power as a tool for healing. Poetry as Survival is a memorable and inspiring introduction to lyric poetry's capacity to help us find safety and comfort in a threatening world.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Georgia Press
Place of Publication:Athens, Ga
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2002.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 235 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780820340111, 0820340111, 1283031272, 9781283031271, 9786613031273, 6613031275
oclc:ocn707925462
LC Classification:PR502
Dewey Decimal:821.009

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everywhere and Always -- Part One: The Self, Jeopardy, and Song -- 1 Poised on a Mountain Peak, Floating on the Ocean -- 2 The Dinner Party and the Sailor At War -- 3 The Embodied Self -- 4 The Edge As Threshold -- 5 Bags Full of Havoc -- 6 The Two Survivals -- 7 The Powers of Poetry -- Part Two: Trauma and Transformation -- 8 The Dangerous Angel -- 9 Convulsive Transformation of the Overculture -- 10 Wordsworth and the Permanent Forms -- 11 Keats and the Ardor of the Pursuer -- 12 Whitman and the Habit of Dazzle -- 13 Dickinson and the Brain S Haunted Corridors -- 14 Wilfred Owen and the Horrors of War -- 15 The Quest and the Dangerous Path -- 16 Constellations and Medicine Pouches -- Appendix A: Sacred and Secular Lyric -- Appendix B: The Social Lyric and the Personal Lyric -- Appendix C: Incarnating Eros -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Subjects

American poetry American poetry -- History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc Electronic books Englisch English poetry English poetry -- History and criticism Geschichte LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry Lyrik Poésie Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… Poésie anglaise -- Histoire et critique Poetry POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel… USA