{"id":63910,"date":"2025-01-13T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=63910"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:40:58","slug":"not-like-frank-ohara-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/01\/not-like-frank-ohara-but.html","title":{"rendered":"Not Like Frank O’Hara, But . . . <\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Since it\u2019s very late 
in the afternoon,
long past time for lunch,
please pardon my 
dishevelment.
Your visit comes 
too early
to hide my lassitude.
But I have a sneaky hunch 
you don\u2019t give a damn 
about my confusion
of day for night
and dark for light,
or for your intrusion<\/strong>.

jh<\/em><\/strong>
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several of my books of poems include . . .<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"This<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
 Kleine Tiere<\/a> (Small Animals) published in a bilingual English-German edition by Stadtlichter Presse<\/a>.<\/em> <\/a>To order in the US and Canada, kindly send requests to Straight Up via \u201ccontact<\/a>.\u201d<\/em> (Click to purchase in Europe.)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
“These poems are free sonnets of experience that even Blake would favour. They are tears for the tongue to be savoured once tasted, and like a drop for the eye, ear, or mind, they restore perception to its rightful place. They are dark diamonds.”<\/em> \u2014 David Erdos, M\u00dc Magazine<\/strong> (London)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Since it\u2019s very late
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