Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

By Gregory Orr

"The middle of Orr's poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic photo . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry."--"San Francisco Review"

This book-length series of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recollects Rumi in its look for the liked and its passionate trust within the therapeutic characteristics of artwork and beauty.

"Concerning the publication that's the physique of the Beloved" is an incantatory social gathering of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of the entire lyrics--both poems and songs--ever written. each one poem highlights a different element of the human , and jointly the poems discover love, loss, recovery, the great thing about the realm, the great thing about the loved, and the secret of poetry. the aim and tool of the publication is to aid us stay via reconnecting us to the realm and to our emotional lives.

"I positioned the beloved
In a wood coffin.
the fireplace ate his body;
The flames gobbled her.
I positioned the beloved
In a poem or song.
Tucked it between
pages of the Book.
How shiny the flames.
All of me burning,
All of me on fire
And nonetheless whole."

There is not anything really like this book--an "active anthology" within the top sense--where participants locate the poems and songs that would maintain them. Or the poems locate them.

Gregory Orr is the writer of 8 books of poetry, 4 volumes of feedback, and a memoir. He has acquired various awards for his paintings, such a lot lately the Academy Award in Literature from the yankee Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr has taught on the college of Virginia when you consider that 1975 and used to be, for a few years, the poetry editor of "The Virginia Quarterly Review." He lives together with his kinfolk in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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3-* A M AN A man’s mother is deathly ill He goes for a doctor He cries On the way he sees4iis wife with another man They are holding hands He follows them at a little distance From tree to tree He cries He secs a friend from his youth We haven’t seen one another in years! They stop in a bar They talk, they laugh The man goes out to pee on the patio He sees a young girl It’s nighttime She’s washing dishes The man goes over to her He grabs her waist They waltz together They leave together They laugh There’s an accident The girl is unconscious The man goes to find a telephone He cries He comes to a house with lights 011 He asks for a phone Someone recognizes him Stay for dinner man No Where’s the telephone Eat man eat Then you can go He sits down to eat He drinks like mad He laughs They make him recite He recites He ends up under a desk asleep.

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