“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.” WorldHumansHardSeemsFacesSufferingViewsGriefMeditationCryAbusePraiseInstinctProfoundAncientWelcomeWorriedImpulseUncertaintyThese DaysFragileMistrustSpirited Author:Patricia Hampl
“The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.” WorldSecretMystery Author:Patricia Hampl
“Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.” WorldSelfNightVoiceMaterialsIndustrySingingRelationSeekingCornersHumbleMemoirNarrativeAutobiographyEssaysAssuredFoldsCrowdedFluidTrustworthyPersonal ExperiencesCottagesKnittingFugitiveAriaVoice Singing Author:Patricia Hampl
“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world” WorldSelfLiteratureWrittenMemoir Author:Patricia Hampl
