Poetry as Survival

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 to three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems.

O analiza a rolului puternic pe care poezia il poate juca in confruntarea, supravietuirea si transcenderea durerii si suferintei. Gregory Orr se bazeaza pe o serie de surse, de la Keats, Dickinson si Whitman la poezii egiptene vechi de trei mii de ani, cantece inuit si poezii de dragoste japoneze.