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Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved

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This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty.


Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr is an incantatory celebration of the “Book,” an imaginary and self-gathering anthology of all the lyrics—both poems and songs—ever written. Each poem highlights a distinct aspect of the human condition, and together the poems explore love, loss, restoration, the beauty of the world, the beauty of the beloved, and the mystery of poetry. The purpose and power of the Book is to help us live by reconnecting us to the world and to our emotional lives.

I put the beloved

In a wooden coffin.

The fire ate his body;

The flames devoured her.

I put the beloved

In a poem or song.

Tucked it between

Two pages of the Book.

How bright the flames.

All of me burning,

All of me on fire

And still whole.


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