false 139867 1 <P>Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.</P> <P>Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.</P> 134831 1 3 1964 Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) total:783|5:456|4:222|3:87|2:17|1:1| 783 3464 981 56 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Jan 18 11:30:47 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 13:51:13 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:23:20 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 22:19:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jul 26 17:50:21 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 17:51:59 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Mar 06 13:01:42 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 12:13:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 22 10:09:30 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 06:58:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 21 09:15:03 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:19:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 15 09:20:55 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 09:28:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 15:40:57 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 12:33:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 03 09:44:34 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 17:07:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 12 14:29:16 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 14:30:01 -0800 2008 He makes me taste the streets
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Still: the only Beat I trust. (This is a City Lights pocket rocket innit?)

Poor fertile, fecund O'Hara, he probably coulda become the queer Bukowski if only they'd banned dune-buggy traf...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 24 01:53:10 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 17:48:15 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 17:55:58 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Sun Aug 17 10:25:10 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 10:26:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 15 08:59:54 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 22:45:05 -0700 2007