Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

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 (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 (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 (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air)

Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ (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 (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 (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 (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 (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you)

Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo

https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf (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/ (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/ (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 (https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441)

Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria)

Frank Bidart, “Ellen West”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west)

Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-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 (https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west)

Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 (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 (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 (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ)

John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac)

Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8)

Style Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o)

Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU)