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A review by priya_haha
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
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