In the segment, titled “Shaping Grief with Language,” Orr discusses, as Tippet puts it, “how
language can become a tool for carrying what feels unbearable.”
Orr founded the University of Virginia’s Master of Fine Arts
program in creative writing and is the author of more than 10 books: poetry, non-fiction,
memoir, and commentary on writing.
Poetry, he says in the interview, enables one to “Turn your
confusion into words; take it outside yourself and turn it into language. [Poetry
says] You just bring me your chaos; I will bring you all sorts of ordering
principles.”
And at the end of a brief poem he asks “If we’re not
supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
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