Poem: ‘Good Dog’

Letters

Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010

From Bill Manhire

Orpheus, as voiced by Anne Carson, is wrong to think that Frank O’Hara was ‘the second person in the history of the world’ – after him – to be spoken to personally by the Sun (LRB, 25 February). The Sun had had a similar chat with Vladimir Mayakovsky back in June 1920 (‘An Extraordinary Adventure which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in a Summer Cottage’).

Bill Manhire
Victoria University, Wellington