Orpheus and Eurydice A Lyric Sequence

Name: Orpheus and Eurydice A Lyric Sequence
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ISBN: 9781556591518

ISBN-10: 1556591519

ISBN-13: 9781556591518

Edition: 2001

Authors: Gregory Orr

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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 whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which resists explanation. Through poems of passionate and obsessive erotic love, Orr has dramatized the anguished intersection of infinite longings and finite lives and, in the process, explores the very sources of poetry. When Eurydice saw him huddled in a…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



The Entrance to the Underworld


When I first saw...


Is this what...


We've come...


In the Meadow...


In my dream...


A snake...


His Lament


Loss...


If...


When I was alive...


She paused...


Orpheus Descending


I was moving...


When Eurydice saw him


Look, they descend


Orpheus stood in the dark...


The Ghosts Listen to Orpheus Sing


My body was never marred


Because I sensed


It hurt me to hear...


When they said...


In the cave mouth...


Once the two of us


It's winter...


In the shadows...


His Grief


Far below, plowed fields...


The Wedge


The Maenads


Warned his song...


By the Shore


His Dream: The Black Tree/Thirst


Tomb of Orpheus


Fields took on...