Gregory Orr

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Gregory Orr


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Gregory Orr was born in Albany, New York in 1947, and grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. He received a BA degree from Antioch College in 1969 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1972.

He is the author of more than ten collections of poetry, including River Inside the River: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2013); How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009); Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (2005); The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002); Orpheus and Eurydice (2001); City of Salt (1995), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Poetry Prize; Gathering the Bones Together (1975) and Burning the Empty Nests (1973).

He is also the author of a memoir, The Blessing (Council Oak Books, 2002), which was chosen by Publisher's W
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Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric...

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Poetry as Survival

4.32 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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Concerning the Book that is...

4.34 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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The Blessing: A Memoir

4.18 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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How Beautiful the Beloved

4.19 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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A Primer for Poets & Reader...

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The Last Love Poem I Will E...

3.97 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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The Caged Owl: New & Select...

4.17 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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River Inside the River: Poems

4.08 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Burning the Empty Nests

4.42 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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“If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
Gregory Orr

“And yet I swear
I love this earth
that scars and scalds,
that burns my feet.

And even hell is holy.”
Gregory Orr

“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.”
Gregory Orr



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