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… Read More
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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… Read More
‘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?… Read More
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… Read More
“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… Read More
“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… Read More
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… Read More