More on O'Hara but not on movies
Here is a link to Frank O'Hara reading his poem "Having A Coke with You" shortly before he died in the summer of 1966.
Not the most inspired reading ever, but the poem itself (one of my favorites) is printed out just below the video if you want to read it rather than watch it. And on the web site, there is this quote from David Lehman about Frank's work (which I agree with wholeheartedly):
"The surface of O’Hara’s poems is so dazzling, with taste so fine and sensibility so rare and appealing, that it comes as a surprise to investigate and realize that there are depths of meaning in his offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate and perishable as telephone calls. The prejudice against humor and lightheartedness in poetry has caused some readers to overlook not only the lyric pathos informing O’Hara’s work but also the incisive way his work captures a world, a time, and a place.”
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/06/frank-ohara-having-coke-with-you.html
Not the most inspired reading ever, but the poem itself (one of my favorites) is printed out just below the video if you want to read it rather than watch it. And on the web site, there is this quote from David Lehman about Frank's work (which I agree with wholeheartedly):
"The surface of O’Hara’s poems is so dazzling, with taste so fine and sensibility so rare and appealing, that it comes as a surprise to investigate and realize that there are depths of meaning in his offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate and perishable as telephone calls. The prejudice against humor and lightheartedness in poetry has caused some readers to overlook not only the lyric pathos informing O’Hara’s work but also the incisive way his work captures a world, a time, and a place.”
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/06/frank-ohara-having-coke-with-you.html
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