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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... Human culture "invented" or evolved the personal lyric as a means of helping individuals survive the existential crises represented by extremities of subjectivity and also by such outer circumstances as poverty, suffering, pain, illness ...
... confinement for eight days). These various experiences gave me a terrifying sense of how fragile human life is, how easily and quickly people can vanish. Since, in the hunting accident, I was the child holding 6 Introduction.
... human condition. I am simply proposing it as one image of our situation, an image that deliberately emphasizes the sense of jeopardy built into the experience of being a self in the world. Why? Because I think that an awareness of the ...
Gregory Orr. human minds possess it. Why not call it "imagination" and recognize it as a fundamentally human cognitive capacity? As the poet Robert Duncan put it: as if it were a given property of the mind that certain bounds hold ...
... human memory is extremely fallible and that the vivid accounts of even the most alert eyewitnesses are riddled with errors and inaccuracies. How many of us have compared our own memory of a past family event with that of a sibling or ...
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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 |