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Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

M is there a poem you're thinking of as we're speaking that speaks to this? Gosh. He goes blank. Have you got one? Imheos over theree see if we can find something. I i amus li something. And i now, i will say this about that. There's this book i wrote called concerning the book that is the body of the beloved. Ye, it's a sequence of poems that just goes on forever. It's not a spiritual document in any ordinary sense. It's emerson's make your own bible. Yes, let the record show, he's in the twenty first century. It's your play listadand what sustains...

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