Lunch Poems
by:
Frank O'Hara (author)
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations,...
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Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780872860353 (0872860353)
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: City Lights
Pages no: 82
Edition language: English
I'm pretty sure I bought my copy at City Lights when I went to San Francisco with my friends Leslie & Victoria and we rented a car, drove up from LA and slept in the parking lot of the Palace of Fine Arts. Our friend John meet us there from Seattle. Best time ever!!
3 1/2I wanted to like this more than I did. Maybe my hopes were set too high.Anyway, O'Hara's lack of punctuation makes the reading difficult. He would often end a sentence and start a new one in the middle of a line, without any punctuation, so I would have to read it twice just to get the rhythm ...
I'm pretty sure I bought my copy at City Lights when I went to San Francisco with my friends Leslie & Victoria and we rented a car, drove up from LA and slept in the parking lot of the Palace of Fine Arts. Our friend John meet us there from Seattle. Best time ever!!
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