{"product_id":"the-caged-owl-new-selected-poems-9781556591778","title":"The Caged Owl: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\"Love Poem\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003efrom \"Gathering the Bones Together\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359609160023,"sku":"9781556591778","price":15.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556591778.jpg?v=1754125169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-caged-owl-new-selected-poems-9781556591778","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}