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Orr, Gregory, author.

Selected books of the beloved / Gregory Orr.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, 2022.

xxx, 373 pages ; 23 cm

"A collection of poems by Gregory Orr"-- Provided by publisher.

"For the past two decades, Gregory Orr has been writing toward 'the Book': an imagined tome containing every lyric poem and song ever written. Drawing from this rich tradition, [this book] is the culmination of that project and more -- it is a celebration of the transformative power of poetry, and of our extraordinary capacity to feel and to love" -- Back cover.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Includes index.

"Some of the poems in this collection appeared previously in literary journals The American Poetry Review, Plume, and Smartish Pace and in Cooper Canyon Press volumes The Caged Owl, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved, and How Beautiful the Beloved. Poems also appeared in River Inside the River: Poems, by Gregory Orr (copyright 2013 by Gregory Orr), and The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write: Poems, by Gregory Orr (copyright 2019 by Gregory Orr), used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company Inc." -- Initial unnumbered pages.

Part one: From The book of the beloved and us, which is the book of Eros ; from The book of loss and grief ; from The first book of the book ; The Book of the resurrection of the beloved image as the story of Isis and Osiris ; The book of the body of the beloved imaged as a city made of poems ; From The first book of singing, which is the book of resurrection of the beloved -- Part two: From The first book of the world, which is the book of changes ; from The book of questions, which is also the book of suffering ; from The book of searching, which is the book of risk -- Part three: From the book of the body of the beloved, which is also the second book of singing ; from The book of reading and writing, which is the book of poets and poems ; from The book of my own remembering -- Book four: from The book of words, which is the book of listening and speaking ; from The second book of the world, which is the book of relation ; from The second book of the book, which is the body of the beloved which is the world.

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