January 5, 2009
Having a coke with you
Checking out Dobby Gibson's website on my lunch break, I came across this YouTube clip of Frank O'Hara reading his poem, "Having a Coke with You":
I've read this poem numerous times but it's never felt alive for me until now.
Which leads me to wonder...could YouTube be the ideal medium for the transmission of poetry?
Posted by jason at January 5, 2009 1:27 PMComments
Its references are humorously, self-consciously sophisticated. But the title (which isn't) seems to delineate some immeasurable distance between 1966 and today. It seems simply impossible to imagine this poem being written in 2009, more's the pity.
Posted by: glen at January 7, 2009 11:12 PMi asked the magic 8-ball and its sources say no.
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