Books : Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
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by: Frank O'Hara
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780872860353
ISBN: 0872860353
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 76
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Sales Rank: 81684
Studio: City Lights Publishers
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Product Description:
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often this poet, 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noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat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.
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Rating:  - a great one
buy this now. it's the essential frank o'hara. great choice to keep around for lulls in the day, or for when you're in need of a quick smile.
Rating: - and the only decision you can make is that you did it
O'Hara exemplifies living and writing and understanding something which you'll get once you get the book. I can hardly describe it. I can hardly quote a line or eight or forty which can explain to you why I love and you will love it. BUY THIS EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE COLLECTED POEMS. The volume itself is special. It fits right between your leg and your pants, smooth. Get this and get it.
Rating: - Diversions and Daydreams
The perfect introduction to the poetry of O'Hara, "Lunch Poems" is a celebration of life in New York City with art, poetry, music, friends, and of course, the movies. This book contains 'Ave Maria' with the marvelous opening lines:
Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery ... Read More
Rating:  - Book
Hello my literate friends.
I want to tell you something. This is a book of poems and I should not be writing a review for it. It is famous everywhere except here, and we are here. But I will tell you what you should know to buy this book. That is my job. Now that we have that clear.
These poems are beautiful and good. They are also talky, which is a word my friend Mark Halliday uses, which means that they might sometimes seem close to prose. They are called Lunch Poems because that ... Read More
Rating: - classic work that changed american poetry
I'm only writing the obvious here because I couldn't believe people were giving this book only four stars when they give all kinds of mediocre books five. This book contains the best poem of mid-20th century America--"The Day Lady Died"--and is a quintessential example of New York School poetics. Terrific, fun, funny, exciting, moving poetry.
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