I'll bet Frank would have enjoyed this. His poems have a way of incorporating everything -- clutter, sirens... being tied to the mast, no problem.
(Have you heard there's a fellow running around trying to get attention by claiming one of Frank's best known poems was writ by Kenneth Koch? This naturally irritated a lot of people who were close to both poets, but of course, when they pointed out the patent impossibility of the claim, the claimant got even more attention... from, of course, academics... one of whom, in fact, tut-tutted in the TLS against the attempted "suppression" of this utter folly... so that, finally, Frank's friends, and widow, just gave up. That, folks, is show-biz, or what the "poetry scene" has latterly descended to!)
Nice to think that about Frank--as for that fellow running around trying to get attention (followed by various bloodhounds hot on the trail of what they think is a foxy conspiracy), I hope when he has departed the scene--as we all must--his muckraking body of work be sullied by culture vultures scrounging for their latest delicious morsel.
I'll bet Frank would have enjoyed this. His poems have a way of incorporating everything -- clutter, sirens... being tied to the mast, no problem.
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Nice to think that about Frank--as for that fellow running around trying to get attention (followed by various bloodhounds hot on the trail of what they think is a foxy conspiracy), I hope when he has departed the scene--as we all must--his muckraking body of work be sullied by culture vultures scrounging for their latest delicious morsel.
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