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Monthly Archives: April 2013
The Death of Literature as We Know It
After reading Personism, I was left with a lot of questions. O’Hara covered a lot of topic and ideas in “Personism: A Manifesto” and I thought that some of his words were very unique and almost radical. “Nobody should experience … Continue reading
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Tagged just a bunch of questions
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Not what I expected, in a good way!
When I first got the syllabus, I looked at this poetry reading as more of a boring class assignment than what it really was; and it was NOTHING like a boring class assignment. I was reluctant to go to this … Continue reading
“Frank O’Hara Hit”
After class on Wednesday, after office hours on Wednesday, after the readings on Wednesday, I was walking to the subway, listening to my ipod on shuffle, and “Frank O’Hara Hit” by Chelsea Light Moving came on. I’d totally forgotten about … Continue reading
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Putting a Face to a Name: Part 2
Going back to my post about putting a “Face to a Name,” I recently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a couple class assignments. For my art history class, we were told to pick a piece of artwork from … Continue reading
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Personism
I enjoyed reading “Personism: A Manifesto” by Frank O’Hara, because he proves some two very interesting points. How a poem should just be written without any deep thinking and how it should be written as if you are picking up … Continue reading
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Courage through writing
At first glance the prominent aggressive nature of Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” can be off-putting and considered offensive to many groups of people. After closely analyzing some lines in this poem, you can infer the different experiences Baraka has had … Continue reading
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Alice Notley: “Poem” (1973)
Alice Notley’s “Poem” is only a ten-line poem, but the message she wanted to give us is not as short as the poem itself. When I read the poem over and over again, I understood what she wanted to say. … Continue reading
Poetry as in Speech
Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” has shown me that a poem can be read as a speech or any form of communication. The video of Amiri Baraka reading “Black Art” transformed the graphical and grotesque poem into a powerful speech for … Continue reading
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Expressive Language of NYC
Reading Amiri Baraka’s “Expressive Language” made me realize how words and jargon define, shape, and reflect the culture of a certain place in a time period. New York City has always been a place of constant social and political change … Continue reading
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NYC–elegant and icy
I wish all of the descriptions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were written by Joe Brainard. Seriously. His “Ten Imaginary Still Lifes” piece was so interesting that I would stay at the MET all day to read his writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged i love art, i love still lifes
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