{"title":"Gregory Orr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Orr\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of poetry and its power, inviting readers to engage deeply with both the craft and emotional resonance of verse. His works blend educational insight with a passionate appreciation for the arts, making them essential for anyone drawn to the creative process and poetic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom contemplative essays to intimate poems, Orr's writing meditates on love, loss, and the human experience with a voice that is at once instructive and moving. His books are a valuable companion for readers seeking to enrich their understanding of poetry and its place within culture and personal reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-love-poem-i-will-ever-write-by-gregory-orr-9780393541373","title":"The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 (\u003cem\u003eSong of What Happens\u003c\/em\u003e) to public catastrophe (\u003cem\u003eCharlottesville Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Orr's place among the preeminent lyric poets of his generation, engaging the deepest existential issues with wisdom and humour and transforming them into celebratory song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432949268716,"sku":"9780393541373","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393541373.jpg?v=1774766000"},{"product_id":"primer-for-poets-by-gregory-orr-9780393253924","title":"Primer for Poets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrimer for Poets and Readers of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing poems such as Theodore Roethke's \"My Papa's Waltz\" and Robert Hayden's \"Those Winter Sundays,\" the \u003cem\u003ePrimer\u003c\/em\u003e encourages young writers to approach their \"thresholds\"—those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464166228204,"sku":"9780393253924","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393253924-primer-for-poets.jpg?v=1775039343"},{"product_id":"we-interrupt-this-broadcast-by-gregory-orr-9781324124238","title":"We Interrupt This Broadcast","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003cem\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/em\u003e dramatise, in simple and deep language, what it feels like to be alive in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe disconnects that haunt and animate these poems are political, ecological, and psychological. Some, like \"Un-Earth: A Sequence,\" revisit early trauma experienced both intimately and socially, while others contemplate our present ecological crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet against this sombre background of disconnects, Gregory Orr invokes the natural world and human intimacy as sources of growth and hope. Giving voice to both personal and universal anguish, \u003cem\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/em\u003e repeatedly transforms desolation into celebration, silence and suffering into song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"So often there's a disconnect...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo often there's a disconnect:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou know the world\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIs ending and you eat your soup.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI'm weeding in my garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs a flash flood warning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComes my way, complete with siren.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sky's gray, but nothing else\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndicates so dire a situation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650600026348,"sku":"9781324124238","price":67.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324124238-we-interrupt-this-broadcast.jpg?v=1779329378"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/gregory-orr.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}