frank o’hara

On Poetry and Loss

by Joe Weil April 1, 2011 Memoir

I think of all the human emotions that call for the gravitas of form, loss, grief, and outrage need it most. In the case of Paul Celan, the complete break down of syntax and logical priority in his poetry was, chiefly, a formal necessity rooted in the murder of his people. He was writing in [...]

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Innocent Brilliance: James Schuyler’s Other Flowers

by Michael Klein February 9, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

James Schuyler is back from the dead with the lovely “Other Flowers” a posthumous book of his unpublished, uncollected poems. Everything I have come to know and love about Schuyler’s eye and heart is here in generous supply. The poems are – like so many of the poems published in his lifetime – made from [...]

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Some Notes on Translations of Horace

by Micah Towery February 7, 2011 Reviews

If you are a poet writing in English, you carry Horace in your own voice. I’m convinced there really is no way around this. I’m not sure there’s any possible strain of English poetry that can avoid his influence. And who would want to? Horace is a master of lyric poetry. To learn better how [...]

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More Construction Notes

by migration_test October 14, 2010 Academia

Just a few things to notice about the site redesign. 1. You can now login and comment with your Twitter, Facebook, Open ID, Yahoo, or many other accounts. In the process of this changeover, the old comments have disappeared. Fear not! They are not lost. We’re just in the process of importing them, and barring [...]

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It’s [nearly] a summer day

by Zachary Pace April 15, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

HOMOSEXUALITY by Frank O’Hara So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping our mouths shut? as if we’d been pierced by a glance! The song of an old cow is not more full of judgement than the vapors which escape one’s soul when one is sick; so I pull the shadows around [...]

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Frank O’Hara’s “To The Poem”

by Ben Pease March 23, 2010 Poetry Comics



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Paparazzi

by Adam Fitzgerald March 20, 2010 Photography
Mark Strand, Star Black & John Ashbery

Below are some candid photos I’ve taken of Poetryland’s Personalities. “One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes… Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: [...]

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more correspondence

by Zachary Pace February 11, 2010 Poetry

I want to begin praising If There is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova, translated by Steven Seymour (her husband, her muse! how romantic, how intrinsic!) released last month from Knopf, her first collection published in English. These one hundred poems go so far so terrifically fast (almost all under ten lines) that Pavlova seems [...]

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