Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems

by Gregory Orr

A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflections on his craft and his fellow writers.

Genres: Poetry

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 1994

About the author

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 Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction books the year, and three books of essays, including Poetry As Survival (2002) and Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry (1985).
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Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m very glad I rad this book. This poet and his personal story are very interesting to me. He writes here of poetry and poems. A highlight for me are his thoughts and writings on Stanley Kunitz’s poetry. And the notes and little pieces of things he has collected. This was a much easier book to read than many other in the “poets on poetry” series - which this is a part of.