Tag Archives: Gregory Orr

SIng Going Down

May 9, 2014 – 8:03 am

What a journey I had this morning! It started with finding a Hirschfield quote in the 2012 book A God in the House: …poetry exists in part to enlarge us, […]

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Sing Me Awake: Listening and The Mysterious Hidden Woman

December 4, 2013 – 3:50 pm

  This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No Other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory […]

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“The Book” and the Art of Poetic Provenance

April 28, 2013 – 9:18 pm

The Beloved is Dead The beloved is dead. Limbs And all the body’s Miraculous parts Scattered across Egypt, Stained with dark mud. We must find them, gather Them together, bring […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – O is for Orr

April 21, 2012 – 6:25 pm

* When Sappho wrote: “whatever one loves most is beautiful,” she began The  poems of heart’s praise That comprise the Book Of the body of the beloved Which is the […]

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