{"product_id":"the-caged-owl-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Orr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable poet, whose poems have been described as \"mystical, carnal, reflective, and wry.\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Love Poem\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA black biplane crashes through the window\u003cbr\u003e of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, \u003cbr\u003e removing his leather hood.\u003cbr\u003e He hands me my grandmother's jade ring.\u003cbr\u003e No, it is two robin's eggs and\u003cbr\u003e a telephone number: yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"Gathering the Bones Together\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA father and his four sons\u003cbr\u003e run down a slope toward\u003cbr\u003e a deer they just killed.\u003cbr\u003e the father and two sons carry\u003cbr\u003e rifles. They laugh, jostle, \u003cbr\u003e and chatter together.\u003cbr\u003e A gun goes off\u003cbr\u003e and the youngest brother\u003cbr\u003e falls to the ground.\u003cbr\u003e A boy with a rifle\u003cbr\u003e stands beside him, \u003cbr\u003e screaming...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Orr's is an immaculate style of latent violence and inhibited tenderness, charged with a desperate intensity whose source is often obscure.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Orr is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three books of criticism. He is the editor at \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, teaches at the University of Virginia, and lives with his wife and daughters in Charlottesville. In 2002, along with his selected poems \u003ci\u003eThe Caged Owl\u003c\/i\u003e, he will also publish a memoir and a book about poetry writing: \u003ci\u003eThree Strange Angels: Trauma and Transformation in Lyric Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso Available by Gregory Orr: \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOrpheus \u0026amp; Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TP $12.00, 1-55659-151-9 - CUSA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Orr is the author of ten books of poetry, four collections of criticism, and a memoir that was selected by Publishers Weekly as a \"Best Book of the Year.\" The former poetry editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review, Orr teaches at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43780064870463,"sku":"9781556591778","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/the-caged-owl-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}