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lamphouse's review
4.0
favorites:
-"To the Harbormaster"
-"River"
-"On Rachmaninoff's Birthday"
-"For Grace, After a Party"
-"Jane Awake"
-"Ode"
-"Radio"
-"Mayakovsky"
-"To the Harbormaster"
-"River"
-"On Rachmaninoff's Birthday"
-"For Grace, After a Party"
-"Jane Awake"
-"Ode"
-"Radio"
-"Mayakovsky"
tyranosarahrex's review
5.0
I don't think this is necessarily a five star worthy anthology but the poems that are worth five stars are so five star that it doesn't even matter.
lauraisabeldp's review
4.0
I, too, read this book after hearing about it from Don Draper.
Frank O’Hara wrote beautiful poetry in a way that seems effortless. At times mundane and other times very moving… And then sometimes too abstract for me to understand!
Frank O’Hara wrote beautiful poetry in a way that seems effortless. At times mundane and other times very moving… And then sometimes too abstract for me to understand!
klazu's review
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
3.0
Meditations in an Emergency - yes
The eager note on my door... - absolutely
- but the rest was not for me.
The eager note on my door... - absolutely
- but the rest was not for me.
paul_viaf's review
4.0
An excellent discovery indeed. Sad to hear this literary work seems to be lost amongst the art of his time.
priya_haha's review
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
About a quarter of these poems are some of my favourites I've ever read, and half of them I think I am genuinely too stupid for. Some of the images and abstractions were hard to follow and without knowing the references he was making, I couldn't see the connections from idea to idea/stanza to stanza. I can't decide whether the problem is me or if this was objectively too obscure/opaque/pretentious. To reread at some point!
Favourites:
Favourites:
- To the Harbormaster
- To the Film Industry in Crisis
- Poem to James Schuyler ("There I could never be a boy")
- The Hunter
- For Grace, After a Party
- For James Dean
- Sleeping on the Wing