The Poem as Talkscape: Conversation, Gossip, Performativity, Improvisation
The Poem as Talkscape: Conversation, Gossip, Performativity, Improvisation
This chapter examines the way in which Frank O'Hara's poems inhabit spoken, performative, and improvised modes to create ‘talkscapes’, and contextualises the role of talk in O'Hara's poetry in terms of community, camp, gossip, and gayspeak. It also links the talkscape to O'Hara's creative process, his mode of writing, through the concept of improvisation. The connection between product and process in O'Hara's poetry is overt, but has often been discussed in terms of his relationship to Abstract Expressionism. The chapter theorises a new way of conceiving the relationship through the concept of improvisation.
Keywords: Frank O'Hara, New York, poets, poetry, improvisation, talkscapes
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