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      <name><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always go back to this book.  It stays on my shelf.  O'Hara's poetry is quirky, smart, funny.... Check out the opening to &quot;In Memory of my Feelings&quot;:  <br/><br/>&quot;My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent/<br/>and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets./ ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2291284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara just had that knack of writing a great poem.  I think he had a great ear for language, and knew how to edit things around his life.  Poems that read like conversations and puts you right into the New York art world of the late 50's.  One of my favorite American poets, that's for sure.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 23 13:02:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Screw all those other selections of O'Hara.<br/><br/>This is the book.<br/><br/>I've loved 90% of the poems in here, as opposed to like 70% in Donald Allen's 1974 <em>Selected</em>. You don't have to look at O'Hara naked on the cover, unlike Allen's. The type is readable-- the poems look way better on th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28083120">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 03 11:28:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love love love frank o'hara so much that one year for Xmas I gave all of my co-workers little journals in which I xeroxed a frank o'hara poem on the last page that reminded me of them.  Some were offended I think.  I would not be but then again, I have a soul and I love Frank O'Hara.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara's poetry is infused with an infectious energy and wit. You want to be his friend, and in a way, you feel he already is.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 06:53:30 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another great collection from my absolute favorite poet in the whole wide world]]></body>
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    <review id="16502943">
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Ford edited this collection and he also wrote the great biography on Raymond Roussel.  So in a sense, I think I have all the poems here in this edition, but it's sort of like a mix-tape.  It's Ford's favorite works, so that makes it interesting to me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thus far in my poetry-reading life, I have not been a big fan of O'Hara.  But so many other people like him that I'll try again to see what they see.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[5 stars for love, a lthough the selection is uneven. Looking forward to the new Selected, which is supposed to be much better.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it enough to put it on my Amazon wish list, to have and<br/>to hold.  I'm lucky to have run into it at the library.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I adore Frank O'Hara, and have always held this book as a treasure on my shelf.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I imprinted on Frank O'Hara when I was a teenager. This is a fine collection.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[New edition from Knopf, edited by Mark Ford: delicious!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's so refreshing to read Frank O'hara again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You see the cover? Nuff said.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite collection of his.  ]]></body>
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