Poetry as SurvivalUniversity of Georgia Press, 01.12.2010 - 242 Seiten 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. |
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... there. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" As a poet, I've always hated the fact that poetry often intimidates people. Many people I know feel that poetry is a test they can only pass if they are smart enough or ...
... there is some order in the world that helps us feel safe and secure. Our day to day consciousness can be characterized as an endlessly shifting, back-and-forth awareness of the power and presence of disorder in our lives and our desire ...
... there waiting to be identified and described. On the other hand, I've done the best I could to interrogate my intuitions and test them against the rich evidence of poems I know and love. This page intentionally left blank PART ONE The ...
... there, you can't know that. Yet even as you walk or drive toward the encounter, if you pay careful attention, you will almost certainly discover that your mind is spontaneously generating images of the upcoming event. Sometimes they are ...
... there, only to discover that our recollection of facts and the sequence of events differs drastically from theirs, not to mention the crucial detail emphasized in one recollection and completely missing from the other—"But what about ...
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Trauma and Transformation | 115 |
Sacred and Secular Lyric | 209 |
The Social Lyric and the Personal Lyric | 213 |
Incarnating Eros | 225 |
Index | 231 |