Appreciation …

… Encountering Frank O’Hara – Magma Poetry. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

All I can offer is that paying attention to detail also means attending to the turns your unique brain takes, the idiosyncratic hairpin associations, those individual, cultural, situational quirks of syntax and observation. It’s where, as in O’Hara’s work, some of the most perversely accurate, joyfully and terrifyingly immediate detail emerges, the most revelatory of mood and implication. It’s where the nerve is. It’s where the risk is.

That's a good take-away from O'Hara's poetry. Just don't try to write an O'Hara poem. Only he could do that.