Two Legends

Two Legends

by John Watson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/08/2020

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Famously in the twentieth century, Frank O'Hara spends his lunch hour stepping out of the Museum of Modern Art to type poems on shop demonstration typewriters. Following his accidental death on Fire Island, he becomes a legend in his own lifetime. Watson's extended riff on these lunch perambulations addresses this first legend.An interlude follows in which O'Hara and his friends emerge from MOMA to see figures from the legendary past.The second legend is the tale of Cupid and Psyche,in which awakening innocence, wicked sisters and mysterious identity collide with the all-too-human frailty of the gods.Herculean tasks are set. And, just as Frank O'Hara's lunch hourtakes on legendary status, so in Watson's treatment Psyche finds herself at times in touch with twentieth century celebrity.

ISBN:
9781760419653
9781760419653
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-08-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ginninderra Press
John Watson

John Watson is politics and society editor at The Conversation

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