The Marvels

The long-anticipated second collection from New York Times Book Review poetry critic David Orr, The Marvels showcases the formal control and profound perspective praised by The Washington Post as "quirky, engaging poetry" that transforms the commonplace. Just as “the deep machinery” of the material world “remains invisible,” Orr’s linguistic elegance, semantic economy, and fluid syntax are meticulous but subtle architects of conceptual complexity. Neither the distractive chaos of contempora...