How Beautiful the Beloved

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Gregory Orr

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Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
08 July 2009

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

""[A] confident, mystical, expansive project.""-Publishers Weekly

""[D]azzling and timeless . . . focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent-not God, but the beloved-that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time.""-The Virginia Quarterly Review, ""Editor's Choice""

""Mary Oliver calls him '...a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting or oratory.' In these pages, he is more nearly a modern-day Rumi. This is not primarily a poetry of image, but of ideas, perfectly distilled. Orr brings together the monumental themes of love and loss in small, spare, and exquisite koan-like poems.""-ForeWord

""...magnetic poems that open the world of lyrical verse to the larger questions of what is true and timeless.""

-The Bloomsbury Review

Gregory Orr continues his acclaimed project on the ""beloved"" with a lyrical sequence about the joys and hungers of being fully engaged in life. Through concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love. Mary Oliver has called this project ""gorgeous,"" and said that he ""speaks of the events that have no larger or more important rival in our lives-of our love and our loving.""

If to say it once And once only, then still To say: Yes.

And say it complete, Say it as if the word Filled the whole moment With its absolute saying.

Later for ""but,""

Later for ""if.""

Now Only the single syllable That is the beloved. That is the world.

Gregory Orr is the author of ten books of poetry. He teaches at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville.

By: Gregory Orr
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 193mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 127g
ISBN: 9781556592836
ISBN 10: 1556592833
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 08 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gregory 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.

Reviews for How Beautiful the Beloved

"""Gregory Orr's new book is dazzling and timeless [and] focus is so unwaveringly aimed toward the transcendent--not God, but the beloved--that we seem to slip into a less cluttered time. It's an experience usually reserved for reading the ancients, and clearly that was partly Orr's inspiration.""--Editor's Choice, Virginia Quarterly Review ""[A] confident, mystical, expansive project, whose very clear short poems constitute a meditation and ritual for grieving a lost beloved."" --Publishers Weekly"