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Category Archives: Free Blog
The Age of Movements
I always find it interesting how movements are started and carried through. Naturally, everyone has a tendency to feel that they are a part of something, albeit a cause of sorts. I had never dreamed that I would actually take … Continue reading
O’Hara and the Manifesto
Reading “Personism: A Manifesto” by Frank O’Hara was a different experience because I thought I was about to read a dreary poetic story about a philosophy that the poet is following and one I couldn’t understand. What I actually experienced … Continue reading
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True Mastery
The last class was the first time I met Frank O’Hara and other members of the New York School of poetry such as Allen Ginsberg and James Schuyler. The poems of Frank O’Hara drew my attention from the first reading. … Continue reading
Frank O’ Hara
“Personism: A Manifesto” by Frank O’ Hara is by far one of my favorite readings I’ve read this whole semester. The reason is because everything O’Hara says about poetry and reading is so true and I couldn’t agree more. He says how poetry is not … Continue reading
Baraka’s Void
Amiri Baraka’s poem Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note revolves around a void in the poet’s life. In the first stanza he speaks of the ground opening up. Being impossible in reality, this statement hints at a void somewhere … Continue reading
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Personism
In “Personism: A Manifesto” O’Hara seems to write about an experience he had with a blond that he was in love with. He says, “While I was writing it I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use … Continue reading
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Frank O’Hara’s writing, “Personism:A Manifesto” was personally a very interesting piece to read. It wasn’t anything about what O’Hara was saying about Personism or what he does not believe or what he believes in. It was interesting because Frank O’Hara … Continue reading
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
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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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