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Re: "Death is often a good career move in poetry" (the first sentence of William Logan's review of Frank O'Hara's Selected)
as if FOH committed suicide
when all he did was watch the tide
drunk as in a Song Dynasty tune
trying to embrace the moon
-- DL
from the archive; first posted July 1, 2008
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
That's why the Logan is a scamp.
Posted by: Jill Newnham | December 26, 2022 at 02:40 PM