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Manifesto!

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

May 6, 2019
01:28:23

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”

Frank O’Hara, “Personism”
http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf

Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ

Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air

Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/

The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara

Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism

Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency

Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you

Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo
https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf

Frank O’Hara, “My Heart”
https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/

Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/

Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence”
https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441

Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria

Frank Bidart, “Ellen West”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west

Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost

Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West”
https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west

Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950

De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment
http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf

David Jones, Epoch and Artist
https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html

Audio Clips:

The Stranglers, No More Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ

John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac

Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8

Style Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o

Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

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