Wednesday, 27 August 2008

The Power of Television

The new series of that wondrous TV drama Mad Men began in the US the other week. In an early scene, Don Draper notices a man in a bar is reading Frank O'Hara's Meditations In An Emergency. Result: the book instantly soars to 2,761 on Amazon (for poetry, that's soaring) before selling out completely. Time for a reprint surely. After all, it contains the great poem To The Harbourmaster. If that became popular at funerals, it would raise the standard of funerary readings considerably.

2 comments:

  1. Thrilled by the news - I agree, Mad Men is a truly wondrous series, gripping, literate and compulsive.

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  2. I don't get this. "Don Draper notices a man in a bar is reading Frank O'Hara's Meditations In An Emergency. " Could you please enlighten me on this? I keep following all your posts hope you can regularly post more. I get very useful information here. Thanks for having this.



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