
Lunch Poems 2
Paul Legault
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Description
Poetry. LUNCH POEMS, first published in 1964 as Number 19 in the City Lights Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. That's what it says on the back of his book. Fifty years later, Paul Legault clicked the refresh button. This expanded and enhanced version was written by Legault during his lunch breaks. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has opened a window on his laptop to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened dive or gay bar to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, co-existence and depth, while never forgetting to eat Lunch his favorite meal...
Product Details
Publisher | Spork Press |
Publish Date | April 01, 2018 |
Pages | 79 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781948510042 |
Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Poetry
About the Author
Paul Legault is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence Books, 2011), The Emily Dickinson Reader: an English-to-English Translation of the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (McSweeney's, 2012), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2 (Fence Books, 2016), and LUNCH POEMS 2 (Spork Press, 2018). Legault was born in Canada. He lives in New York.
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