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:

• 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