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SUMMARY:Walking with Frank O'Hara - Jack Parlett
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CONTACT:Michael Kosicki
DESCRIPTION:Numerous recollections of the American poet Frank O’Hara tak
 e care to describe the spectacle of his walk – one that was by turns ‘
 light and sassy’\, and like that of an ‘angel in sneakers’ – compl
 ementary to his own poems\, which are often concerned with the motions of 
 ‘standing still and walking in New York.’ \n\nThis talk will explore w
 hat O’Hara’s work can tell us about the experience of waking in cities
  and its performative potential\, both as an inscription of identity and a
 s a contribution to the dance of the urban everyday. In his ‘I-do-this-I
 -do-that’ poems – as O’Hara himself named them – we find not only 
 representations of these walks but ruminations upon their relations to per
 sonality\, queerness and public space.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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