EPISODE · Jul 19, 2016 · 1H 8M
Lunch Poems Audiobook by Frank O'Hara
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https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/65/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lunch Poems Author: Frank O'Hara Narrator: Matthew Weiner Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 07-19-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36 votes Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Frank O'Hara was a pioneering modern American poet and playwright - an art critic, a musician, and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art - who defined New York City in its post-WWII heyday. For many these poems defined the city's midcentury zeitgeist. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in remarks on the 50th anniversary edition, said that the poems "established a certain tone, a certain turn of phrase, a certain urbane wit, at once gay and straight, that came to identify the New York school of poets in the 1960s and '70s". O'Hara's wit and cool inspired the creator of AMC's hit television show Mad Men decades later - and writer Matthew Weiner performs the poet's work with charm and reverence, adding his own unique spin on the classic material. Critic Reviews: "Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theater tickets and phonograph records, turns 50 this year. It seems barely to have aged.... This is a book worth imbibing again, especially if you live in Manhattan, but really if you're awake and curious anywhere. O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age." (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
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