Posts Tagged: David Orr
Things People Write
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How To Read Poetry

| April 14th, 2011

"In a book that he clearly hopes not just tourists will read, he sets out to help readers get better acquainted with poets but is just as interested—or more—in nudging poets to take stock of themselves and how little they know about who their readers might be. He doesn't suggest poetry should be easy—to read or to write—but he thinks it shouldn't create so much alienation between readers and poets." —Craig Morgan Teicher (a contributor to our poetry section) says some very nice things about Awl pal David Orr's Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry. If you missed it, you should really check out [...]

The Way We ____ Now
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My Astounding And Yet Not At All Unusual Day In Culture

| March 15th, 2011

As you may be aware, The Paris Review has been publishing a series of blog posts called “The Culture Diaries,” which are apparently diaries about… culture. The diarists thus far have been a delightful assortment of sophisticated folks, a few of whom appear to consume culture—perhaps even Culture—in amounts that would stagger much larger land mammals. Anyhow, since The Awl is basically The Paris Review with more videos of bears, the editors here suggested that I offer a glimpse into my own humble work schedule as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review. (This is not, of course, in any way a parody of [...]