New Dominion Bookshop
404 East Main St
Charlottesville, VA 22902
United States
Free and open to the public.
Join New Dominion as they celebrate the reissue of Gregory Orr’s memoir, The Blessing. Hailed on its original publication as “eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man’s life” (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.
A signing will follow. This event will be free and open to the public.
More Information:
https://ndbookshop.com/events/gregory-orr-book-launch-the-blessing/
Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr is the author of more than ten collections of poems, including, most recently, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write, and several volumes of essays, criticism and memoir. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for The Blessing.
Orr articulates his journey in language as lyrical as it is authentic, gifting us all with a singular tale of survival, and of the transformation of suffering into art.