Beautiful & Pointless

by David Orr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061673463
• ISBN13: 9780061673467
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"