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David Salle: “I wanted to live in a Frank O’Hara poem”
The Brooklyn Rail has posted a new interview with the artist David Salle, who came to prominence in the 1980s as an important member of the “Pictures Generation,” which became known for its experimentation with appropriation, pastiche, assemblage, and pop culture imagery. In … Continue reading
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Marjorie Perloff on “Reading Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems After Fifty Years”
Over the past six months, there has been a flood of reviews and reassessments of Frank O’Hara’s landmark volume Lunch Poems, prompted by the release of City Lights Books’s special 50th anniversary edition of the 1964 book. The new issue of … Continue reading
Frank O’Hara, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Evolution of Lunch Poems
w There’s been a lot of welcome attention lately to the 50th anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s 1964 book Lunch Poems, including a star-studded group reading of the book at the Poetry Project the other night. As I mentioned before, City Lights … Continue reading
Lunch Poems Turns 50! A Reissue and a Celebratory Reading
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frank O’Hara’s landmark book Lunch Poems, first published by City Lights Books in 1964. In honor of the book’s half-century birthday, City Lights is publishing a special 50th anniversary edition, … Continue reading