How Frank O'hara Defined The American Poet

The art of O'hara is worthy of being honored a poet that died way too soon. A poet that shifted poetry into a vlog like feeling that can't be described a poet that talked about the enjoyment of everyday things.

[@zachdirects]

Was working on this video for months the tone is kind of inconsistent but I love the intro too much to not upload it

[@kowsar1228]

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

[@adelinerivero]

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.

[@zachdirects]

Thank you! The intro took me forever. I want to make more insightful videos but I feel like people wouldn't like them.

[@BrickManiac]

Rip O'hara what a legend

[@zachdirects]

Tragic death

[@Charles-y4r]

Great! I am a big fan of the guy. You spoke very fast to my Midwestern ear.

[@alanjoshua7020]

What’s the name of the last poem he read?

[@kowsar1228]

a step away from them, from his collection lunch poems

[@hardtravelin2]

Make more videos on poetry

[@zachdirects]

Never thought my audience would like poetry

[@adambrydges1040]

lovely video

[@harrisonmorris6896]

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.

[@zachdirects]

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

[@____toomuch____]

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

[@thomnickels4016]

Never open with making a cup of tea. That is weak. Do coffee!!!!!!!

[@SeveredBooks]

This is so damn cool -- thank you for this reminder of how much I love O'Hara

[@thechillestguy177]

Nice

[@zachdirects]

Thanks thy gamer

[@____toomuch____]

this video is mid and doesn't understand frankie, anyone can read the wiki and come up w some dumb association

[@____toomuch____]

plenty known abt his childhood,
frankie predated warhol and abstract expressionism is not pop art, they were actually opposed to each other

[@zachdirects]

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

[@____toomuch____]

@@zachdirects Zach directs garbage