Ebook {Epub PDF} Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr

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.4/5(57). David Orr is the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review and Professor of the Practice at Cornell University. His first book, Beautiful Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, was named one of the twenty best books of by the Chicago Tribune.  · "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr#;s a critic, and a good one Beautiful #38; 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.

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For most readers, contemporary poetry is a foreign country. And because they’ve barely visited poetry, let alone lived there, readers struggle to enjoy the art for what it is, rather than what they imagine it to be. In Beautiful Pointless, award-winning critic David Orr provides a riveting tour of poetry as it actually exists today. Orr argues that readers should accept the foreignness of poetry in the way that they accept the strangeness of any place to which they haven’t traveled. "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr#;s a critic, and a good one Beautiful #38; 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. Beautiful Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr is not just another book about poetry. I have read many books about poetry. About how to read it, about what it is, about different forms and styles, and about how to write it. Many of these books were excellent, some were exhilarating.