A review by gerumoon
The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write: Poems by Gregory Orr

4.0

We ordinary people, in our daily lives, we experience enormous amounts of disorder and confusion. It’s inside us. It’s in our past. It’s in the unknowable future. And we just navigate our lives with this kind of interplay of disorder and order. And what poetry says to us is, Turn your confusion, turn your world into words. Take it outside yourself into language. Poetry says, I’m going to meet you halfway. You just bring me your chaos. I’ll bring you all sorts of ordering principles.
— From On Being with Krista Tippett, Gregory Orr on Shaping Grief With Language