Poetry as Survival

Author/Contributor(s):	Orr, Gregory
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	11/18/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Orr weaves discussions of work by Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman with quotes from three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems to show that writing personal lyric has helped poets throughout history to process emotional and experiential turmoil.