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Two Legends

  • ISBN-13: 9781760419646
  • Publisher: GINNINDERRA PRESS
    Imprint: GINNINDERRA PRESS
  • By John Watson
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 07/08/2020
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) 110 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Famously in the twentieth century Frank O'Hara spends his lunch hour stepping out of the Museum of Modern Art to type poems on shop demonstration typewriters. Following his accidental death on Fire Island he becomes a legend in his own lifetime. Watson's extended riff on these lunch perambulations addresses this first legend. An interlude follows in which O'Hara and his friends emerge from MOMA to see figures from the legendary past. The second legend is the tale of Cupid and Psyche in which awakening innocence wicked sisters and mysterious identity collide with the all-too-human frailty of the gods. Herculean tasks are set. And just as Frank O'Hara's lunch hour takes on legendary status so in Watson's treatment Psyche finds herself at times in touch with twentieth century celebrity.

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