Name: The Caged Owl
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Author: Orr, Gregory
ISBN: 9781556591778

Long-awaited selected poems from a poet who shapes what threatens to misshape him.

New Poems

Heart

5

(1)

Here

6

(1)

(Trauma) Storm

7

(1)

Screaming Out Loud

8

(1)

Tin Cup

9

(1)

Bolt from the Blue

10

(3)

What I'm Saying

13

(1)

The River

14

(1)

Paradise

15

(1)

Some Part of the Lyric

16

(1)

Some Notes on Shadows

17

(9)

The Journey

26

(2)

Fall

28

(1)

Two Poems about Nothing

29

(2)

Nothing and the Incident in the Streets

31

(6)

A Dream of Fifty

37

(1)

Shaky Spectrum

38

(1)

The Talk

39

(1)

The Excavation

40

(2)

If There's a God...

42

(2)

To My Father, Dying

44

(1)

Celestial Desolations

45

(1)

Best

46

(1)

Wild Heart

47

(1)

Paradise Lightning Dazzle

48

(5)

Be-all

53

(4)

from Burning the Empty Nests (1973)

Washing My Face

57

(1)

Silence

58

(1)

``Transients Welcome''

59

(1)

The Girl with Eighteen Nightgowns

60

(1)

The Doll

61

(1)

Getting Dressed

62

(1)

Manhattan Island Poem

63

(1)

A Parable

64

(1)

The Dinner

65

(1)

The Bridge

66

(1)

Love Poem

67

(1)

The Room

68

(1)

Making Beasts

69

(1)

Poem to the Mother

70

(1)

The Fast

71

(1)

Going Out

72

(1)

Line Written in Dejection, Oklahoma

73

(1)

Daffodil Poem

74

(1)

Sleeping Alone in a Small Room

75

(1)

October

76

(1)

Trying to Sleep

77

(1)

Singing the Pain Back into the Wound

78

(1)

Poem

79

(1)

Beginning

80

(3)

from Gathering the Bones Together (1975)

Gathering the Bones Together

83

(3)

A Life

86

(1)

The Cage

87

(1)

The Snail

88

(1)

Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm

89

(1)

The Hats

90

(1)

Domestic Life

91

(2)

The King of the Earthworms

93

(1)

The Sweater

94

(1)

A Large White Rock Called ``The Sleeping Angel''

95

(1)

All Morning

96

(1)

The Builders

97

(1)

Overtaken by Fog While Climbing

98

(1)

Like Any Other Man

99

(4)

from The Red House (1980)

The Lost Children

103

(4)

from The Red House

Morning Song

107

(1)

The Ditch

108

(2)

Neighbors

110

(1)

Work Gloves

111

(1)

The Brave Child

112

(1)

Adolescence

113

(1)

Horses

114

(1)

Sunday School Picnic: What Endures

115

(1)

Walking Home after the First Encounter

116

(1)

The Migrant Camps

117

(1)

Memorial Day

118

(1)

After a Death

119

(1)

Driving Home after a Funeral

120

(1)

Song of the Invisible Corpse in the Field

121

(1)

Spring Floods

122

(1)

In Haiti

123

(3)

Song: Early Death of the Mother

126

(1)

The Weeds

127

(1)

A Half-Dead Black Cherry Tree across the Road from My Childhood House

128

(2)

Three Songs

130

(2)

There

132

(1)

Beggar's Song

133

(1)

Swamp Songs

134

(1)

Indian Summer

135

(1)

After the Guest

136

(1)

Reading Late in the Cottage

137

(1)

The Caged Owl

138

(1)

Friday Lunchbreak

139

(1)

Virginia Backyard: July

140

(1)

On the Lawn at Ira's

141

(1)

A Story Sassetta Paints

142

(1)

Leaving the Asylum

143

(1)

An Abandoned, Overgrown Cemetery in the Pasture near Our House

144

(3)

from We Must Make a Kingdom of It (1986) and New & Selected Poems (1988)

We Must Make a Kingdom of It

147

(1)

Poem in New York

148

(2)

Visit to the Island of Lost Souls

150

(2)

A Shelf Is a Ledge

152

(1)

Poem

153

(1)

Nantucket Morning/This World

154

(1)

Chateaubriand on the Niagara Frontier, 1791

155

(1)

Elegy

156

(1)

Reverie

157

(1)

The Pond

158

(1)

November

159

(1)

The Demonstration

160

(1)

On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama

161

(2)

Solitary Confinement

163

(1)

Hotel St. Louis, New York City, Fall 1969

164

(3)

The Trick

167

(1)

Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes

168

(1)

Lucky

169

(1)

After Botticelli's Birth of Venus

170

(1)

The Fifth Month

171

(1)

The Voyages

172

(1)

The Hand: ``Brightness Falls from the Air''

173

(1)

Tableau Vivant

174

(1)

The Teachers

175

(1)

The Western Invention of Lyrical Nature

176

(1)

A Field in New England

177

(1)

A Song

178

(1)

The Tree

179

(4)

from City of Salt (1995)

Origin of the Marble Forest

183

(1)

A Litany

184

(1)

A Moment

185

(1)

Everything

186

(1)

Elegy

187

(1)

A Dark Night

188

(1)

Who'd Want to Be a Man?

189

(1)

The Vase

190

(1)

A la Mysterieuse

191

(1)

The Gray Fox

192

(1)

The Cliff

193

(1)

Self-Portrait at Twenty

194

(1)

Muse of Midnight

195

(1)

Tristan and Iseult

196

(1)

After Piero di Cosimo's Venus, Mars, and Amor

197

(1)

Glukupikron

198

(1)

Lament

199

(2)

Investigation

201

(1)

My Father's Voice

202

(1)

The Gift

203

(1)

Father's Song

204

(1)

The City of Salt

205

(4)

from Orpheus & Eurydice (2001)

The Entrance to the Underworld

209

(1)

When I first saw...

210

(1)

A snake...

211

(1)

His Lament

212

(1)

If...

213

(1)

When I was alive...

214

(1)

I was moving...

215

(1)

When Eurydice saw him

216

(1)

The Ghosts Listen to Orpheus Sing

217

(1)

My body was never marred

218

(1)

When they said...

219

(1)

In the cave mouth...

220

(1)

Once the two of us...

221

(1)

In the shadows...

222

(1)

His Grief

223

(1)

Far below, plowed fields...

224

(1)

The Wedge

225

(1)

His Dream: The Black Tree / Thirst

226

(1)

Fields took on...

227

(2)

About the Author

229

(2)

Index of Titles

231

(2)

Index of First Lines

233

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