Gregory Orr

Following the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, this book, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ship's most exciting adventures and actions. It is at once a narrative of real life on board, a history of some of the most famous vessels in the world, and also a history of Greenpeace itself, which goes beyond the oceans and touches on many aspects of the...

Gregory Orr continues his acclaimed project on the "beloved" with a lyrical sequence about the joys and hungers of being fully engaged in life. Through concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love. Mary Oliver has called this project "gorgeous," and said that he "speaks of the events that have no larger or more important rival in our lives-of our love and our loving." If to say it once...

How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades. Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which resists explanation....

"For the past two decades, Gregory Orr has been writing toward 'the Book': an imagined tome containing every lyric poem and song ever written. Drawing from this rich tradition, [this book] is the culmination of that project and more -- it is a celebration of the transformative power of poetry, and of our extraordinary capacity to feel and to love"--Back cover.

When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they come face to face with exact copies, duplicates of themselves. But what if your clone was a far superior version of yourself, would you kill it, or let it replace you?