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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... someone near and dear to us. And yet our instability is present to us almost daily in our unpredictable moods and the way memories haunt us and fantasies play themselves out at will on our inner mental screens. We are creatures whose ...
... someone, see his or her face and then the memory image of a house where we both were, and a sad feeling, and then one of longing, and now something else, and a voice is talking inside me also, chattering along as if it were a radio ...
... someone you expect to see there, or of the physical layout of the place itself. Perhaps a fantasy of yourself easefully triumphing, although sometimes we are as likely to imagine ourselves goofing up or blundering. It's not the specific ...
... someone in our past. The child's memory of the dangerously weird Uncle Al may not be factually accurate (according to adults), but it is an extremely accurate story of the child's feelings or intuitions about Al. And the parents' 18 THE ...
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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 |