Gregory Orr, Author . Copper Canyon $16 (235p) ISBN 978-1-55659-177-8
The constraints of personal narrative are stretched to their limits in this summation from Orr, an editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review
and professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, as his poems are often based on tragic...
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Gregory Orr, Author . Council Oak $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57178-111-6
Orr's gripping chronicle of his troubled boyhood is alternately self-conscious, moving and revelatory. When he was a boy growing up in New York's Hudson River valley, Gregory accidentally shot and killed his younger brother Peter during a...
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Gregory Orr, Author . Copper Canyon $18 (199p) ISBN 978-1-55659-229-4
Orr's first book since The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
(2002) has little in common with the hushed, observant lyric that made his reputation in the 1970s; this eighth collection is, instead, a confident, mystical, expansive project, whose
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Gregory Orr, Author . Copper Canyon $16 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55659-283-6
In his sequel to Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved
(2005), Orr offers more short (many don't break 10 lines), earnest poems that take as their central metaphor “the beloved,†Orr's word for a conflation of a loved human being,
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Gregory Orr, Author University of Georgia Press $19.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2428-9
Poet Gregory Orr (The Caged Owl) takes an altogether more personal, more speculative, tack in his first book of prose, Poetry as Survival. Orr, who teaches at the University of Virginia, begins by suggesting that ""culture evolved the personal...
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Gregory Orr, Author University of Georgia Press $44.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2427-2
Poet Gregory Orr (The Caged Owl) takes an altogether more personal, more speculative, tack in his first book of prose, Poetry as Survival. Orr, who teaches at the University of Virginia, begins by suggesting that ""culture evolved the personal...
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Gregory Orr. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-324-00235-2
At first plainspoken and clever, Orr (River Inside the River) pushes conceits until they are revelatory in this deceptively simple book. These are mostly short poems with a handful of several-page odes (to “Nothing,” “Some Lyric Poets,” “the Country
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Gregory Orr. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (412p) ISBN 978-1-55659-653-7
Orr (The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write) spent over a decade creating this sprawling celebration of the pain and pleasure of being alive and in love with the world. Broken into four sections and spanning multiple “Books,” this collection is a love
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