Gathering the Bones Together
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Gathering the Bones Together Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Gathering The Bones Together PDF full book. Access full book title Gathering The Bones Together.
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis Etchison |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2003-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765301792 |
Offers an anthology of thirty-four horror tales from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.
Author | : Patricia Powell |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780807083673 |
It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar. "
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320630 |
Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail. This long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable poet, whose poems have been described as "mystical, carnal, reflective, and wry." (San Francisco Review) "Love Poem" A black biplane crashes through the window of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, removing his leather hood. He hands me my grandmother’s jade ring. No, it is two robin’s eggs and a telephone number: yours. from "Gathering the Bones Together" A father and his four sons run down a slope toward a deer they just killed. the father and two sons carry rifles. They laugh, jostle, and chatter together. A gun goes off and the youngest brother falls to the ground. A boy with a rifle stands beside him, screaming… "Orr’s is an immaculate style of latent violence and inhibited tenderness, charged with a desperate intensity whose source is often obscure."--The New York Times Book Review Gregory Orr is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three books of criticism. He is the editor at Virginia Quarterly Review, teaches at the University of Virginia, and lives with his wife and daughters in Charlottesville. In 2002, along with his selected poems The Caged Owl, he will also publish a memoir and a book about poetry writing: Three Strange Angels: Trauma and Transformation in Lyric Poetry. Also Available by Gregory Orr: Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence
Author | : Elsie Myers Klute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780970198907 |
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320649 |
“The heart of Orr’s poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry.”—San Francisco Review This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration of the “Book,” an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics—both poems and songs—ever written. Each poem highlights a distinct aspect of the human condition, and together the poems explore love, loss, restoration, the beauty of the world, the beauty of the beloved, and the mystery of poetry. The purpose and power of the Book is to help us live by reconnecting us to the world and to our emotional lives. I put the beloved In a wooden coffin. The fire ate his body; The flames devoured her. I put the beloved In a poem or song. Tucked it between Two pages of the Book. How bright the flames. All of me burning, All of me on fire And still whole. There is nothing quite like this book—an “active anthology” in the best sense—where individuals find the poems and songs that will sustain them. Or the poems find them. Gregory Orr is the author of eight books of poetry, four volumes of criticism, and a memoir. He has received numerous awards for his work, most recently the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr has taught at the University of Virginia since 1975 and was, for many years, the poetry editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Author | : Audrey Streetman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernice McFadden |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161775031X |
Tass Hilson--the girlfriend of Emmett Till, who in real-life was a black boy murdered by a group of whites--leaves the town of Money, Mississippi, after Emmett's murder and relocates to Detroit where she lives out her life for 40 years, until something calls her back to Money, where she finds Emmett's spirit ready to rekindle their love. Simultaneous. 10,000 first printing.
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1324002360 |
An eminent lyric poet at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love. In his twelfth volume, “master of the lyric poem” (Paris Review) Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Moving from personal trauma (“Song of What Happens”) to public catastrophe (“Charlottesville Elegy”), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write engages the deepest existential issues with wisdom and humor and transforms them into celebratory song. FROM “AFTERMATH INVENTORY” My wounds? If, Somehow, I Grow through them, Aren’t they also a boon?
Author | : Jesmyn Ward |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-04-12 |
Genre | : African American children |
ISBN | : 140882700X |
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.