thank you for this beautiful video, frank o’hara is truly one of the greatest american poets - his style of immediacy and yearning feel so personal, making his work feel more like a diary entry then a collection of prose
I went to school for creative writing and wrote a 12 page paper on O’Hara. I live and breathe for this man’s work. You did a good job with this video! The intro was very much in O’Hara’s style. You did a great job.
I really really LOVE this video it is beautifully directed, thank you -- but the audio suffers a bit because you are talking REALLY REALLY FAST, and it is not always clear diction and some mispronunciations. Gorgeous visuals. I was a good friend of John Ashbery who had a house a short walk from mine, and we also spoke of Frank. Frank was a great inspiration to my own writing. I would argue, however, that while the image of the Coke can is taking a low-brow element and raising it to the level of "art" ( hence the Warhol connection you see) O'Hara has also infused this poem with extremely high-brow art elements that only someone very familiar with art and art history would understand - his reference to the Polish Rider and the Frick, even his list of things that "having a coke with you" is more fun than are places and experiences that working class Americans would not be familiar with -- so there is a dichotomy here. The poem makes low-brow high-brow, and it also makes the high brow "accessible" -- it removes it from the gilded frame and puts it into our everyday New York lexicon. PS also love the use of Polka Dots and Moon Beams.
That's why I love his work. I think his poems capture the beauty of normal everyday life. Too many moments to count where something simple has happened at its been the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
Thanks for your mid reply. I guess you didn’t read my comment. This video was never truly finished properly, and also not a lot of people know much about poetry. Or poets in general because most people don’t care
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Was working on this video for months the tone is kind of inconsistent but I love the intro too much to not upload it
thank you for this beautiful video, frank o’hara is truly one of the greatest american poets - his style of immediacy and yearning feel so personal, making his work feel more like a diary entry then a collection of prose
I went to school for creative writing and wrote a 12 page paper on O’Hara. I live and breathe for this man’s work. You did a good job with this video!
The intro was very much in O’Hara’s style. You did a great job.
Thank you! The intro took me forever. I want to make more insightful videos but I feel like people wouldn't like them.
Great! I am a big fan of the guy. You spoke very fast to my Midwestern ear.
This is so damn cool -- thank you for this reminder of how much I love O'Hara
Rip O'hara what a legend
Tragic death
I really really LOVE this video it is beautifully directed, thank you -- but the audio suffers a bit because you are talking REALLY REALLY FAST, and it is not always clear diction and some mispronunciations. Gorgeous visuals. I was a good friend of John Ashbery who had a house a short walk from mine, and we also spoke of Frank. Frank was a great inspiration to my own writing. I would argue, however, that while the image of the Coke can is taking a low-brow element and raising it to the level of "art" ( hence the Warhol connection you see) O'Hara has also infused this poem with extremely high-brow art elements that only someone very familiar with art and art history would understand - his reference to the Polish Rider and the Frick, even his list of things that "having a coke with you" is more fun than are places and experiences that working class Americans would not be familiar with -- so there is a dichotomy here. The poem makes low-brow high-brow, and it also makes the high brow "accessible" -- it removes it from the gilded frame and puts it into our everyday New York lexicon. PS also love the use of Polka Dots and Moon Beams.
That's why I love his work. I think his poems capture the beauty of normal everyday life. Too many moments to count where something simple has happened at its been the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
I'm sure you were a good friend of John Ashberry /s Ashberry was notoriously known for not liking to talk about frank o'hara. Stop lying
lovely video
Make more videos on poetry
Never thought my audience would like poetry
What’s the name of the last poem he read?
a step away from them, from his collection lunch poems
Nice
Thanks thy gamer
Never open with making a cup of tea. That is weak. Do coffee!!!!!!!
this video is mid and doesn't understand frankie, anyone can read the wiki and come up w some dumb association
plenty known abt his childhood,
frankie predated warhol and abstract expressionism is not pop art, they were actually opposed to each other
Thanks for your mid reply. I guess you didn’t read my comment. This video was never truly finished properly, and also not a lot of people know much about poetry. Or poets in general because most people don’t care
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