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Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
David Orr
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Hardcover, 200 pages; 2011
$9.90
This book is about modern poetry. But a book about modern poetry can't be as confidently "about" its subject as a book about, say, college football or soap operas or dog shows or the pastas of Northern Italy. That's because poetry is poetry--it supposedly comes to us wrapped in mystery, veiled in shadow, cloaked in doubt, swaddled in…well, you get the idea.
Acclaimed critic and columnist for the The New York Times Book Review David Orr recognizes that poetry in the twenty-first century, though not dead, may indeed be "feeling a little woozy." To breathe new life into the subject, this breezily insightful guidebook is designed to equip the common reader with tools for relating to and enjoying modern poetry. By sharing--with incisive and amusing prose--how poets think and talk about poems, Beautiful and Pointless inspires those of us with even the mildest interest in and most vague understanding of poetry to dive in, enthusiastic and unafraid
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