Orpheus & Eurydice
Subtitle: a lyric sequence
By: by Gregory Orr.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Orpheus (Greek mythology) -- Poetry; Eurydice (Greek mythology) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Other titles: Orpheus and Eurydice
Description: "This is a book about desire and its relinquishment. Beginning with the question "How can I celebrate love, /now that I know what it does?" Gregory Orr's spare, elegant verse recasts one of the oldest tales of ideal, unattainable love"--Jacket.