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BOTH AI and Gregory Orr were born in 1947. Aside from that they share little in common, except that they're both publishing their first books of poetry and both books are very good...
...FIRST came upon a style similar to Orr's while sitting in the waiting-room of a doctor's office. Appearing in the New Yorker was a single poem by Mark Strand called "The Room." It describes a place much like that waiting-room: antiseptic, empty, bereft of any outward emotion, full of silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace...
Coach Bep Guidolin and Managing Director Harry Sinden, along with other members of the Bruins, at first feared the worst. Later their hopes were bolstered when an immediate trip to the hospital for Orr was cancelled...
...Orr led the Bruins to a 5-3 victory over Philadelphia before he dropped in pain after being tripped by the Flyers' Bill Barber...
Winner of the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman for six consecutive years, Orr scored his 22nd and 23rd goals as the Bruins caught the Flyers 3-3. Then, with brilliant skating, he helped set up Ken Hodge for the tie-breaker midway through the third period...