Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872860353 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 76 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat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.
With your fave libation in hand, celebrate Lunch Poems--the little book that's still the life of the party."--Kathi Wolfe, The Washington Blade"Although scholars have discussed and quoted from the correspondence between O’Hara and Ferlinghetti about the publication of Lunch Poems before, this is the first time the letters have been published, so it's a real treat to see them in print."--Andrew Epstein, Associate Professor, English Dept, Florida State University"'My life held precariously in the seeing / hands of others.' Fifty years since its now-iconic orange and blue cover re-entered the bustling, amorous New York City from which they were derived, City Lights has reissued the collection with a new introduction and a supplementary appendix with facsimile drafts, letters, and other wonders."--Staff at WORD Bookstore, B
"Dazzling little book" according to Ford. Frank O'Hara's poems have become windows into a vibrant past, and to have this little book of some of his best is to have a portable time machine.. Not our style. Peter Eells The content was not our style of reading. I heard about it on NPR and based on their discussion got it for my wife. Will be re-selling it I guess.. Michael J. Ettner said "Now when I walk around at lunchtime I have only two charms in my pocket". Frank O'Hara's reputation seems caught in a holding period, an awkward stage preliminary to his work becoming universal and timeless.Consider, for example, the final scene in the opening episode of the second season of "Mad Men," the cable TV series set in the world of advertising as practiced in New York in the early 1960s. We see the show's protagonist, Don Draper, picking up a slim volume of O'Hara's poems ("Meditations in an Emergency," 1957). He recites the final lines from "Mayakovsky." There is an ambivalence to the sce