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The first time I heard Frank O'Hara's poem, Having a Coke With You, was in 2008. I was taking a poetry class at university. Each week we'd learn about a poet who exemplified some aspect of modernist poetics. Then, we'd all have to write poems that emulated the poet's particular …
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