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Frank O’Hara: Prose About Poetry / Walt Whitman: Poetry In Prose

In preparation for this research paper situation, I’ve been (counterintuitively, perhaps) going through O’Hara’s and Whitman’s prose. It’s been (surprisingly, perhaps) fruitful, I think. Here’s some tidbits. 1. In a very short statement for The New American Poetry in 1959, O’Hara … 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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