Thank Heavens for the Iconoclast
“You just go on your nerve.” -Frank O’Hara, “Personism” Dorianne Laux took a pin to our significant, pastoral, first-person confessional, lyrical, serious, West-coast bubble with a great talk on Frank O’Hara. She read several of his poems and traced the influence of finding universality in absurdity through to such contemporary poets as Tony Hoagland and …