Gregory Orr

In this moving, playful, and deeply philosophical volume, acclaimed poet Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Slipping effortlessly from personal trauma (Song of What Happens) to public catastrophe (Charlottesville Elegy), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing...

Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in their life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using poems such as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds"—those places where disorder...

From a master lyric poet characterised by Mary Oliver as "a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman's bunting and oratory" comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of public significance. Again and again, the poems in We Interrupt This Broadcast dramatise, in simple and...