{"product_id":"we-interrupt-this-broadcast-hardcover-by-gregory-orr","title":"We Interrupt This Broadcast Hardcover by Gregory Orr","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eWW Norton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-06-02)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e96\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781324124238\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e249.48\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.77 x 14.53 x 1.3\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying what feels unbearable” (Krista Tippet, \u003ci\u003eOn Being\u003c\/i\u003e).\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a master lyric poet characterized by Mary Oliver as “a Walt Whitman without an inch of Whitman’s bunting and oratory” comes this late-life collection that takes its overall title from the venerable phrase that alerted listeners and viewers to an urgent event of public significance. Again and again, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/i\u003e dramatize, in simple and deep language, what it feels like to be alive in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe disconnects that haunt and animate these poems are political, ecological, and psychological. Some, like “Un-Earth: A Sequence,” revisit early trauma experienced both intimately and socially, while others contemplate our present ecological crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against this somber background of disconnects, Gregory Orr invokes the natural world and human intimacy as sources of growth and hope. Giving voice to both personal and universal anguish, \u003ci\u003eWe Interrupt This Broadcast\u003c\/i\u003e repeatedly transforms desolation into celebration, silence and suffering into song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom “So often there’s a disconnect . . .”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo often there’s a disconnect:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nYou know the world\u003cbr\u003e\nIs ending and you eat your soup.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’m weeding in my garden\u003cbr\u003e\nAs a flash flood warning\u003cbr\u003e\nComes my way, complete with siren.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe sky’s gray, but nothing else\u003cbr\u003e\nIndicates so dire a situation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Orr\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen collections of poetry and several books of prose, including \u003ci\u003eThe Blessings: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry as Survival\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, where he founded its MFA Program in Writing. He lives with his wife, the painter Trisha Orr, in Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46495438930081,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781324124238","price":35.14,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781324124238.jpg?v=1780388071","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/we-interrupt-this-broadcast-hardcover-by-gregory-orr","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}