Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr

Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence

Gregory Orr

80 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and ...

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Moods

reflective 92%
sad 76%
emotional 61%
dark 38%
adventurous 15%
hopeful 7%
inspiring 7%
relaxing 7%
tense 7%

Pace

fast 66%
medium 25%
slow 8%

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3.96

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