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A review by zosiablue
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
3.0
(3.5) "...like someone always losing something and never knowing what."
O'Hara is a genius and the lines that floor me, floor me. He isn't my kind of poet, though. He was a storyteller who wrote prescriptively with each word carefully chosen. A poet meant to be read aloud! I like my poets sloppier and less confident. Just a preference. O'Hara deserves the accolades and then some.
PS: Did I read this book because I'm rewatching Mad Men & Don reads it? Who can say.
O'Hara is a genius and the lines that floor me, floor me. He isn't my kind of poet, though. He was a storyteller who wrote prescriptively with each word carefully chosen. A poet meant to be read aloud! I like my poets sloppier and less confident. Just a preference. O'Hara deserves the accolades and then some.
PS: Did I read this book because I'm rewatching Mad Men & Don reads it? Who can say.