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  <title><![CDATA[Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.&lt;/P&gt;  &lt;P&gt;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noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat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.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1964</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These poems kept me grounded as I wandered listlessly through the streets of Paris seeking meaning, but finding only my own dim, drunken reflection. Like a true flaneur, with poems in my pocket and a steady supply of cigarettes, coffee, and alcohol-- I conquered apathy by swallowing it whole.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12846592">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lunch Poems is published by the famous bookstore about three blocks from my house, City Lights Books, so I felt a certain affinity to this book starting off. I couldn't have asked for a greater contrast from William Blake (the last poet I read) than this. Frank O'Hara focuses on primarily city theme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48555358">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 17:50:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In college, during my nothin' beats the Beats phase; this guy should've looked both ways before walking across the beach. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 06 13:01:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[     “I’m so damned literary,” Frank O’Hara proclaims in his “Poem En Forme De Saw” and this exclamation is a succinct summation of his voice throughout this famous collection of work (68).  And the fact that he says this in the voice of a saw indicates his great ability to combine high-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17179836">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book of my youth. but I have read 2 or 3 times since<br/>1974. Lunch does captures the 1950-60s in New York City and the Modern<br/>Art of that time period.  O'Hara makes you want to relive<br/>those days of easy conversation with an artist friend, a friend and/or convesation with your lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78759203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4941453">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 22 10:09:30 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 29 06:58:05 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little book has it going on. Its really a collection of hohum sort of everyday observances, which second to nature poetry is my favorite kind. I really enjoyed On Rachmaninoff's Birthday, read outloud. Rhapsody, 5 poems, Three airs, Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed) and of course I made sure to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4941453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49956193">
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    <name><![CDATA[CX]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 21 09:15:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[just re-read, first read maybe 35 years ago! still alive! thanks Frank! too many good ones to mention all, I always start with &quot;The Day Lady Died&quot;  &amp; &quot;Poem&quot; (&quot;oh Lana Turner we love you get up&quot; the book make me breathless, if it's all you read of Frank, this is it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The moment matters, the moment is here, in this book. Some of the poems end up pulling the same tricks, but it's got soul and it's not taking itself too seriously.]]></body>
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    <review id="17801659">
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    <body><![CDATA[All in all, we all have those lunches where we need to get away from anything and everything, even the thoughts marquee-ing through our heads, and Frank O'Hara provides that perfect escape.  Behold a coke and its simplicity or two coins that glimmer in the sun.  O'Hara created Personism, a movement ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17801659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4830418">
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    <name><![CDATA[Trina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 07 12:33:06 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dig the voice. However, reading the poems aloud was difficult. I can't figure out the line breaks and the lack of punctuation gives no indication of oral phrasing. Then again, I can never figure out why lines are broken where they're broken. There's probably all sorts of scholarship about how brilli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4830418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2671683">
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    <name><![CDATA[James]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 05 17:07:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally started to read O'Hara in high school when I was first really getting into the Beats. I was writing then a lot of prose and had yet to start my love affair with poesy. That said, O'Hara at first seemed a little more accessible to me form wise with his wild prose-poemry. This was and was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2671683">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39969767">
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    <body><![CDATA[he breaths New York<br/>He makes me taste the streets<br/>i sail on his poems back home i love him]]></body>
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    <review id="74820816">
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of these poems contained the best things I've ever read.  But then some of them didn't.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You cannot live in NYC successfully without having read this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The everyday poeticised.<br/><br/>&quot;If you can't be interesting at least you can be a legend.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I, too, have stopped thinking like a sled dog.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed out loud at &quot;Poem&quot; which begins &quot;Lana Turner has collapsed!&quot; and ends &quot;oh Lana Turner we love you get up&quot;--but other than that, O'hara's poems left me cold.  Too bound by personal experience for me, I guess.  It's a good thing I don't have any good friends wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28982878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara liked to walk around Manhattan during his lunch hours. He'd read the paper, watch the city, eat something. And then return to his desk and type out a poem. These poems are little windows into Frank O'Hara's life, and life in Manhattan at the time. They've inspired me to not be so regime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3925739">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 07 19:57:24 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 07 23:46:00 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only Beat I trust. Wait, he wasn't a Beat was he? He was of the ahem New York School. <br/><br/>Still: the only Beat I trust. (This <em>is</em> a City Lights pocket rocket innit?) <br/><br/>Poor fertile, fecund O'Hara, he probably coulda become the queer Bukowski if only they'd banned dune-buggy traf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8819237">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 24 01:53:10 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 24 17:48:15 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 24 17:55:58 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a great pocket book with all time hits. somehow it feels apropo to be on a subway or streetcar reading this book...his style, subjects and the very movement of the train complements the poetry with its music. you can hold it with one hand, fits in a small purse/bag and back pocket.]]></body>
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