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New and Selected Poems by Gregory Orr

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4.0

A bit confounded by his occasional deification of Desire; some of these feel a bit too sharply pointed at something; much of this is incredible.
Favorites:
Silence
Making Beasts
October
Gathering the Bones Together
On the Lawn at Ira's
Leaving the Asylum
An Abandoned, Overgrown Cemetery in the Pasture Near Our House
Work Gloves
The Brave Child
Song: Early Death of the Mother
We Must Make a Poem of It
Poem in New York
Keats
Elegy
The Trick
The Teachers
The Tree
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