O’Hara reads “Having a Coke with You” for a documentary series on American poetry. Clip filmed March 1966 in his loft.
“It seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience / which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it.”
“And what good does all the research of the impressionists do them / when they never got the right person to stand next to the tree when the sun sank?
Well, just as every other time I’ve forgotten and re-heard this poem, there goes my breath. I remember seeing a few of the pieces from USA: Poetry in my teens, this was a great reminder.
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