City Of Salt (Pitt Poetry Series)

by Gregory Orr

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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.

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Gregory Orr has written twelve poetry collections, a memoir, and several books of criticism, most recently A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry. The recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Orr lives in show more Charlottesville, Virginia. show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
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811.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century1945-1999
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PS3565 .R7 .C58Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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