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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... reader. It's my belief that this kind of poem has a crucial role to play in our psychological, imaginative, and spiritual lives. We Often Experience the world as confusing and chaotic, especially during crises. This confusion can be ...
... readers) still accurately mirrors the life crisis it dramatizes, still displays life's interplay of disorder and order. But in the act of making a poem at least two crucial things have taken place that are different from ordinary life ...
... readers as well as writers. Broadly speaking, its function is to help us express and regulate our emotional lives, which are confusing and sometimes opaque to us. This survival function of the personal lyric can be quite readily ...
... readers, survive the vicissitudes of experience and the complexities and anguish of subjectivity and trauma. Much of my book is speculative and meant to be suggestive rather than definitive. Again and again, I have a sense that I am ...
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Inhalt
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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 |