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Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry

by David Orr

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Todd said: " I first read Orr's essay in the NYT Review of Books a week ago. Then yesterday read a review of the book. Got it. Started it. Orr is clever, funny, and helps anyone fall in love or back in love with poetry. ...more "

Apr 11, 2011 07:06PM · see review

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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

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“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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“Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.”
― Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity

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“Everybody who was anybody seemed to be going to a meeting, the glowworm, who was a solipsist, the lemur who was not.”
― James Tate, Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Joyful New Poems with Variety of Voices by 1992 Pulitzer Winner James Tate

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