David Reads “For Grace, After a Party,” by Frank O’Hara

Cover of Meditations in an Emergency Recently I soothed my winter-wearied soul with a few small purchases of poetry, including both Lunch Poems and Meditations in an Emergency, by Frank O’Hara. It’s one thing to read a “best of” collection, or to study a few of a poet’s works in an anthology, but have you…

Of Mad Men, Mayakovsky and Frank O’Hara

I was going to add the Oxford comma to the title of this post but later decided that I liked what it meant when I wrote it this way. Perhaps that is the one flaw of the OC, by being more precise it loses the magic implications of poetic ambiguity. With it the meaning becomes…