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Sea Wolf’s “Frank O’Hara,” a Tribute to the Poet of Indie Rock
Indie rock’s love affair with Frank O’Hara continues apace. As I’ve noted before on this blog, O’Hara seems to haunt the history and present of popular music, leading one observer to ask: ‘When did Frank O’Hara become the poet … Continue reading
Dining Out with Douglas Crase
The poet and critic Douglas Crase published his first book of poems, The Revisionist, in 1981, to rapturous reviews. No less than Harold Bloom, that tireless canonizer, proclaimed that “Crase has every prospect of becoming one of the strong poets … Continue reading
Falling in Love with Frank O’Hara (via Instagram)
The writer Sinead Stubbins has a charming article in the Guardian today about how she, like so many others, came to fall in love with the poetry of Frank O’Hara. The piece also suggests the new, digital byways that lead people … Continue reading
John Ashbery Interview: Walden, Whitman, Proust, Obama, and School Lunch Menus
There’s a charming and pithy interview with John Ashbery in today’s New York Times Book Review (as an installment in their “By the Book” feature). Among the highlights: we learn that Ashbery’s got Thomas DeQuincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater on … Continue reading
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