Tag Archives: Personism

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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