Beautiful & Pointless

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.