This collection of essays and reviews features critic and columnist David Orr’s incisive investigations of poetry’s role in contemporary culture. Readers and writers alike will find inspiration and insight in Orr’s explorations, which cover a broad range of poets, books, celebrities, and poetry-related subjects including Oprah Winfrey, beach poems, translation, Louise Glück, Matthea Harvey, James Franco, Mary Jo Bang, and Robert Frost.
