[New-Poetry] "the day lady died"

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Putting a 'watershed' poem like O'Hara's to a test wouldn't work. It's canonical. Even those who wouldn't cotton to it by nature have been taught the virtues of its hipster I-do-this-I-do-that style. (Besides it promotes smoking and therefore a bad choice.)


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From: Jason Quackenbush <jfq at myuw.net>
Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:36 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] "the day lady died"


That's what I love about Frank O'Hara. He's got that great rambling conversational tone, but whenever you look closer to see if there are any excess words, you don't really find any.?
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On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:?
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> Jason, I do like this poem. I find it concise. Every word is > needed. Well, probably not every word is needed, but every word > adds to the poem. Maybe it's the same poem as the Dickinson poem > except a hundred years later??
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