【Peggy Markoff】
And Frank O’Hara As Himself
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Warning: going down the Frank O’Hara reading rabbit hole can swallow your day. It’s not that the poet’s reading of Lunch Poemsis such a revelation, by which I mean different from what you might have imagined in your head. Rather, he reads them exactlythe way you imagine them, or even read them aloud yourself: conversational, matter-of-fact, and incidentally just touched with Boston. He’s who you’d cast to play him.
It’s gratifying when things look or sound or act as we picture them; it’s nice not to have the limits of our imagination challenged. Or maybe that’s what imagination is. Anyway, it doesn’t happen often, and if we are surprised nowadays, there’s nothing to blame but laziness. The last time I remember being pleasantly surprised by the synergy of a voice and a face was when I first saw a picture of Brian Lehrer.
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