Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
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Author: Frank O'HaraEditor: Mark Ford
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-26
ISBN: 0307268152
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Knopf
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Book Review: A split decision for the book group: Easy charm and pointed observations, or unstructured and over praised
Summary: 4 Stars
At the May 2010 meeting, the gay book discussion group met at The LGBT Center in NYC and read a number of poems and discussed them.
I think that reading the poetry out loud, especially a couple of short poems that we read twice, helped. Most of the discussion revolved around the quick, easy nature of the poetry that seemed to flow out of O'Hara. A few of the participants did not care for the apparently unstructured and slightly rough form that much of the poetry took, but others of us were charmed by its clever language and pointed observations. The fact that the popular show "Mad Men" alluded to the popularity of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" clearly put him and his poetry in a very specific period of the pre-Stonewall 1960's.
Finally, the group split into two groups: those who learned to like the free-form poetry after some minor work, and those who continued to find it largely empty and hard to discern why --other than his NY art connections, fast alcoholic magnetism, and early death on Fire Island-- he became so admired. Many agreed that reading the poetry out loud and hearing others talk about it helped since it may not be immediately clear why O'Hara has such a popular following.
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