Vivid and easy to read introduction to some issues in modern poetry (form, significance, greatness, status-competition, etc). The author made me laugh out loud several times with his deflating interpretations of overwrought poems and prose. Orr leavens the text with eye-catching similes of exac...
Reading this, as I hoped, prompted me to read more poetry, right away. I liked the appetite for poetry that the author creates, intentionally I presume. What I didn't really care for was the digression into the struggles of the modern poet with other modern poets and the documentation of the dr...