To Be Alive by Gregory Orr - Your Daily Poem
To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but... If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? From Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Used here with the author's permission. Gregory Orr was born in Albany, New York and earned degrees from Antioch College and Columbia University. Author of thirteen books of poetry, three books of criticism, and a memoir, The Blessing, named by Publisher's Weekly as one of the fifty best nonfiction books published in 2002, Greg has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Founder of the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Virginia, he has retired from teaching after 43 years. Greg lives with his wife, painter Trisha Orr, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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