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peggy_racham's review
4.75
"Weren’t we more than
Electricity and dust?
Weren’t we the hours
We lay beside
Each other?"
Ahh, good poetry books. To have a man love and appreciate you this much
Electricity and dust?
Weren’t we the hours
We lay beside
Each other?"
Ahh, good poetry books. To have a man love and appreciate you this much
akingston5's review against another edition
"Grief will come to you. Grip and cling all you want, It makes no difference. Catastrophe? It’s just waiting to happen. Loss? You can be certain of it. Flow and swirl of the world. Carried along as if by a dark current. All you can do is keep swimming; All you can do is keep singing."
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"To learn by heart is to learn By hurt—grief inscribing Its wisdom in the soft tissue. Song you sing, poem you are— Finger moving, precise As a phonograph needle, Along the groove of scar."
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I listened to Gregory Orr's episode at @onbeing a few weeks ago and snagged this collection of poetry from the library. This collection is part of Orr's work on the beloved, and in it he works through engaging life fully be it mystically, romantically, mentally, physically, or what have you. There's an eternalness to his work that I really love a lot as he acknowledges both joy and hurt. Really recommend if you get the chance to read this!
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"To learn by heart is to learn By hurt—grief inscribing Its wisdom in the soft tissue. Song you sing, poem you are— Finger moving, precise As a phonograph needle, Along the groove of scar."
***
I listened to Gregory Orr's episode at @onbeing a few weeks ago and snagged this collection of poetry from the library. This collection is part of Orr's work on the beloved, and in it he works through engaging life fully be it mystically, romantically, mentally, physically, or what have you. There's an eternalness to his work that I really love a lot as he acknowledges both joy and hurt. Really recommend if you get the chance to read this!
ginnygriggs_'s review against another edition
4.0
Poems about loving the world and what it means to be fully here.
ida_ree's review against another edition
Short poems that tell a sort of story grouped together.
senid's review
5.0
I love Orr's poems about the beloved. I could mark almost every one as a favorite. This will be a very easy book to come back to again and again. These poems seem to me like the result of a life trying to reconcile loss. They are hopeful and joyous.