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Orr, David

  • David Orr
  • David Orr
  • Professor of Poetry and the Practice of Criticism
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  • Phone Number: (848) 932-7974
  • Field of Interest: Creative Writing Studies, Poetry & Poetics
  • About:

    David Orr has served as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review since 2005. In addition to editing the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Robert Frost’s early poetry, Professor Orr is the author of The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, as well as Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, which was named one of the twenty best books of 2011 by the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editor’s Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine.

  • Book(s):
    Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
    Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
    Dangerous Household Items
    Dangerous Household Items
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
    The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
    The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
    You, Too, Could Write a Poem
    You, Too, Could Write a Poem
  • Education: BA, Princeton and JD, Yale Law School

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