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‘Greenwich Avenue’ by James Schuyler
In the evening of a brightlyunsunny day to watch back-lightedbuildings through the slitsbetween vertical strips of blindsand how red brick, brick paintedred, a flaky white, gray orthose of no color at all takethe light though it seems onlyabove and behind them so whatshows below has a slight evening“the day—sobs—dies” sadness and the sun marches on.…
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Circuit Dice Coffee Dramaturge
Wikipedia Poem, 875 imagine koch met another koch what brotherless friendship othered even these plants’ music the moirai graduates shack up on center street and sap wondersided all three conversing for many years with any living man append the loose fringe of life three-story building wits growing seemly never the end of the world war…
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Fairmount School of Polyrhythms
Wikipedia Poem, No. 738 the reflecto neveryone and the fairmount school of polyrhythms i always meant to take it boils in the biplane dopple overheadaches toward an old white school of the always approaches toward teterboro the reflecto neveryone and blinks all overhead reflecto never that meant fail fail fail fail fail fail fail fail…
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‘What’ by James Schuyler
What’s in those pills? After lunch and I can hardly keep my eyes open. Oh, for someone to talk small talk with. Even a dog would do. Why are they hammering iron outside? And what is that generator whose fierce hum comes in the window? What is a poem, anyway. The daffodils, the heather and…
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John Ashbery, 1927-2017
“Fear of Death” by John Ashbery What is it now with me And is it as I have become? Is there no state free from the boundry lines Of before and after? The window is open today And the air pours in with piano notes In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John, I’ve…
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“be frank (if you can’t be frank, be john and kenneth).”
From “The Last Avant-Garde” by David Lehman: [Frank] O’Hara’s ironically self-deprecating tone was much imitated. “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love,” he wrote. He kiddingly called his own poems “the by-product of exhibitionism” and wrote constantly about his daily life. It was O’Hara who initiated the policy of…
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“To Psychoanalysis” by Kenneth Koch
I took the Lexington Avenue subway To arrive at you in your glory days Of the Nineteen Fifties when we believed That you could solve any problem And I had nothing but disdain For “self-analysis” “group analysis” “Jungian analysis” “Adlerian analysis” the Karen Horney kind All—other than you, pure Freudian type— Despicable and never to…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 318
For John, James and Frank michael 1985 request box 10 mccann chris 1988 request box 1 folder 7 writings of ninnies request of series to schuyler and curio-position included in boxes 1957-1990 series request box 2 folder 13 final pages corbett william 1981 request of books and content poem ned request box 20 my cat…
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