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Better Than The Movies: Whitman and O’Hara Both Wrote Poems, And Other Similarities

This is the first bit of my paper, as it stands. Much work is to be done, yet (including adding the citation for the Eberly article). But I thought it might be worthwhile to post these first few paragraphs. Five … Continue reading

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Be Here Now

I would like to recommend to you all a book called Hip: the history, even though I find that an unfortunate title. It was written by John Leland, self-proclaimed “reporter for the New York Times and former editor-in-chief of Details, and…an original columnist … Continue reading

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To The Film Industry In Crisis

Frank O’Hara’s poem “To the Film Industry in Crisis,” appears as a poem glorifying the film industry as a great new form of art in the modern world. The majority of the poem is spent describing various old movie stars … Continue reading

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Frank O’Hara and Intimacy: What Is Personism Again?

“Personism has nothing to do with philosophy, it’s all art. It does not have to do with personality or intimacy, far from it!” Frank O’Hara is the love of my life, and I know better than to take him at … Continue reading

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Personism and Negative Capability

In “Personism: A Manifesto”, O’Hara offers Personism as a literary technique like Keats’s Negative Capability. I loved that he made that comparison, because I had already drawn parallels between O’Hara’s feelings about formal poetry and Keats’s feelings about formal poetry. … Continue reading

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Whitman the Person(al)ist: Looking at Leaves of Grass through O’Hara and Polanyi, Part 1

“But that’s not why you fell in love in the first place, just to hang on to life, so you have to take your chances and try to avoid being logical.” Frank O’Hara, Personism: A Manifesto We’ll get to O’Hara … Continue reading

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