City of Salt

This volume of poems is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatised events. The poems are of elegy and celebration and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.

About the author

Gregory Orr is professor of English and director of the M.F.A. program at the University of Virginia.

Summary

City of Salt, Gregory Orr's sixth book of poems, is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatized events. These are poems of elegy and celebration, and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Orr
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.1995
• EAN: 9780822955573
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5557-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 141 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies