Quotes
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Big Fire (The Black Wind Begins to Blow)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 955 be good at everything astride a famous quote jack views composition in the best way possible man philosophy don’t take things u want to eat every good type of advice is basically aimed i am a very good dreamer i feel the avant-garde … a matter of review i think even…
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Artifacts of Reference, No. 34
Tomorrow is my birthday. If anyone is in the meatpacking district and wants to eat hella pizza and drink reasonably priced cocktails HMU. Please share this and let everyone know what a terrible poet I am. You can be anything you want.
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Please let me sleep
“The bike I was thinking of buying belonged to a friend. Before I could buy it, I crashed on it, riding as a passenger behind my friend, with a beautiful girl squeezed in between us, three on a bike, a Triumph, going far too fast, all of us drunk, around Place de la Concorde, and…
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Ashbery on the Beauty of Deadlines
Source: Lehman, David. The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. 1999. Print.
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Cortinarius Claricolor
Wikipedia Poem, No. 675 title plato reading erosion title coiled vibrating string boy reading how did he hide so michael keaton in birdman of you each i’m the wrong person to ask i don’t actually know the man i’ve heard his name mentioned in passing you’d have to know the particulars experience every idle plot…
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Your necklace sure is SOMETHING, Dick!
.”porary ok.”narration”ation is the wodrk tvhe manu factual wrok.”cturing of the ork ation”ati ual w VvidaD Ssheed “Conte8mmmporary narration is the account of tvhe manufacturing of the wodrk, not the actual wrok.” Daivd Shiiedelds “Contemporary narration is the accsjrount of the manufacthuring of the work, not the actaul work.” David Shiieelds “Conttjemporary narration is the account of…
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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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