BEAUTIFUL & POINTLESS: A Guide to Modern Poetry – Smart and Funny Literary Criticism by an Award-Winning NYT Columnist - Softcover

Orr, David

 
9780061673467: BEAUTIFUL & POINTLESS: A Guide to Modern Poetry – Smart and Funny Literary Criticism by an Award-Winning NYT Columnist
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061673463 ISBN 13: 9780061673467
Verlag: Perennial, 2012

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"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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Contemporary poetry may seem like a foreign country you've barely visited and wouldn't dream of living in. Beautiful & Pointless, however, reveals how to accept the foreignness of poetry in the same way we accept the strange delights of a place we're traveling to for the first time. Expect a little confusion, many delightful surprises, and a few experiences that will change the way you think about language and life.

Award-winning critic David Orr is what every reader hopes for: the guide who points the way, doesn't talk too much, and helps you see what you might have missed on your own. Stimulating, amusing, and utterly engrossing, Beautiful & Pointless empowers us to engage with poetry as individual readers, allowing each of us to appreciate it in our own way.

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Verlag
Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061673463
ISBN 13 
9780061673467
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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