"yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do"
5 stars
Well there u go
Paperback, 76 pages
English language
Published March 8, 1964 by City Lights Books.
Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)
by Frank O'Hara
5 stars
(10 reviews)
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often O'Hara, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.
Review of 'Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
i am only subtracting 1 star because i think i would've enjoyed this a lot more (A LOT MORE) if i were a new yorker. people are right when they say that this collection reads more like a 'journal-entry' kind of thing rather than poetry but then... what essentially constitutes a poem anyway? so, yes, my enjoyment was hindered by not being able to explicitly imagine what places, streets, alleys o'hara talks about but this isn't me being superior by emphasizing the particularity of his work; only acknowledging the lack of that complete experience that o'hara did.
anyway, i absolutely adored the lack of structure & formality in his poems & the joyous element of every single thing he does & writes about. these poems are casual, brief, often funny, & somewhat pointless and are refreshing.
i am only subtracting 1 star because i think i would've enjoyed this a lot more (A LOT MORE) if i were a new yorker. people are right when they say that this collection reads more like a 'journal-entry' kind of thing rather than poetry but then... what essentially constitutes a poem anyway? so, yes, my enjoyment was hindered by not being able to explicitly imagine what places, streets, alleys o'hara talks about but this isn't me being superior by emphasizing the particularity of his work; only acknowledging the lack of that complete experience that o'hara did.
anyway, i absolutely adored the lack of structure & formality in his poems & the joyous element of every single thing he does & writes about. these poems are casual, brief, often funny, & somewhat pointless and are refreshing.
anyway, i absolutely adored the lack of structure & formality in his poems & the joyous element of every single thing he does & writes about. these poems are casual, brief, often funny, & somewhat pointless and are refreshing.
Subjects
- Poetry texts & anthologies
- Poetry
- American - General
- Poetry / General