Beautiful & Pointless - A Guide to Modern Poetry

"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr''s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." --Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose''s Reading Like a Writer , Orr''s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

About the author

David Orr is the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review. He is the winner of the Nona Balakian prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editors Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Product details

• Authors: David Orr
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.03.2012
• EAN: 9780061673467
• ISBN: 978-0-06-167346-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POETRY: CRITICISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, LITERARY CRITICISM: Reference, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM: Modern / 21st Century