An analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws on an array of sources, from Keats, Dickinson and Whitman…

Orr explores the biographical sources of Kunitz’s work, the strategies by which he achieves his aim of converting life into legend, and the theory and tactic of the dramatic lyric…

Orr imagines poetry as a city constructed of its forms and forebears, its terrain all that can be imagined.