Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Bowie's Books # 7 Selected Poems - Frank O'Hara



As a New Yorker Bowie was drawn to the languid, comic perfection of Frank O'Hara, unofficial laureate of everyday life in the city.O'Hara transfigures the humdrum so that a lunch break spent walking the sidewalk where 'laborers feed their dirty/ glistening torsos sandwiches/ and coca cola with yellow helmets/on' glows in the memory.'



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