With "Lunch Poems," Frank O'Hara Invented Stan Twitter

No one knew how to cherish the small and seemingly insignificant facets of continuous living better than the famously Twitterless poet Frank O’Hara. For all his mindful musings, it could be said that O’Hara’s signature poetic style set the furious pace at which Twitter operates today. More specifically, the works of his collection Lunch Poems (1964) were written like tweets, zeroing in on the oddly specific details of a general experience. 

To capture the heat of the moment and transcribe it into tender recognition as Frank O’Hara did is a feat also achieved through a viral tweet. O’Hara and Twitter users alike use pop culture references, melodramatic declarations, and real-time accounts as the means by which they make sense of a humanity that is both shared and personally percieved.

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