Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.); Poetry as Survival – postscript: It is difficult to get the news from poems …
Category: Gregory Orr
Silence & Suffering
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) Speech is among the most fundamental ways we have to connecting our selves to other selves. This is what Gregory Orr can tell us about silence & suffering There are silences that are positive and powerful and willed by the self, but many silences have a destructive origin and destructive…
The Two Survivals
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) Gregory Orr writes: Survival no. 1 The difference between a lyric poet and a person who does not write poems is that the poet has an arena in which to focus his/her encounter with disorder. Every encounter with disorder of any sort that results in a poem is a successful…
Goods
It’s the immemorial feelings I like the best: hunger, thirst, their satisfaction; work-weariness, earned rest; the falling again from loneliness to love; from “Goods” by Wendell Berry
Poetry – Philosophy – Religion
There is this situation, or maybe constellation is a better word for it, which really interests me; it has to do with the relationship between art, philosophy and religion. Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.) – or: why you all should go ahead and read Gregory Orr Gregory Orr calls personal lyric a gift – given…
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric)
I found this book which I had left unfinished. And started re-reading: … for a poem to move us it must bring us near our own threshold. We must feel genuinely threatened or destabilized by the poem’s vision of disordering, even as we are simultaneously reassured and convinced by its orderings Gregory Orr: Poetry as Survival…
Poem of the Day
GREGORY ORR To Be Alive / Poem of the Day : The Poetry Foundation. To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That’s crudely put, but… If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music? From Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
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