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Book Title
Orpheus and Eurydice : a Lyric Sequence
Publication Name
Orpheus & Eurydice
Title
Orpheus & Eurydice
Subtitle
A Lyric Sequence
Author
Gregory Orr
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9781556591518
ISBN
9781556591518
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Genre
Poetry
Release Date
15/03/2001
Release Year
2001
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
8in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz
Publication Year
2001
Topic
General, American / General
Item Width
5.2in
Number of Pages
80 Pages

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How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which resists explanation. Through poems of passionate and obsessive erotic love, Orr has dramatized the anguished intersection of infinite longings and finite lives and, in the process, explores the very sources of poetry. When Eurydice saw him huddled in a thick cloak, she should have known he was alive, the way he shivered beneath its useless folds. But what she saw was the usual: a stranger confused in a new world. And when she touched him on the shoulder, it was nothing personal, a kindness he misunderstood. To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love. "A reader unfamiliar with Orr's work may be surprised, at first, by the richness of both action and visual detail that his succinct, spare poems convey. Lyricism can erupt in the midst of desolation."-- Boston Globe When Gregory Orr's Burning the Empty Nest appear, Publisher's Weekly praised it as an "auspicious debut for a gifted newcomer...he already demonstrates a superior control of his medium." Kirkus Review celebrated it as "an almost unbearably powerful first book of poetry" and enthusiastically reviewed his second book Gathering the Bones Together , noting that "Orr's power is the eloquence of understatement." Most recently, his City of Salt was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award . Gregory Orr teaches at the University of Virginia.

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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN-10
1556591519
ISBN-13
9781556591518
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Orpheus and Eurydice : a Lyric Sequence
Author
Gregory Orr
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3565.R7o77 2001
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-010242
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
21

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