Poetry.This book-length lyric sequence reinhabits the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus was the lyrist who descended into Hades in search of his beloved. Through poems of passionate, obsessive, and erotic love, Orr dramatizes the anguished intersections of infinite longings and finite lives; in the process he explores the very sources of lyric poetry. Gregory Orr is the author of six books of poetry and three of criticism. He lives with his wife and daughters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
