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A Study Guide for Frank O'Hara's "Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed)" - Gale
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Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
Frank O'Hara
1964
Introduction
Frank O'Hara wrote Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
as a lighthearted response to a headline in the New York Post that caught his eye. In the poem, he plays two conflicting attitudes off of each other for comic effect. One personality that comes out in this poem is that of the beleaguered urban dweller who is late for meeting someone and is faced with bad weather. O'Hara contrasts this personal inconvenience with the nation's fascination with celebrities, even though they live their lives with no knowledge of the problems of the people who follow them in the news. By discussing what turned out to be a minor incident in the life of movie star Lana Turner, the poet conveys a panic about the fate of a celebrity he will never know.
O'Hara, who was one of the rare openly gay writers in the early 1960s, uses this poem to poke fun at the camp approach that many urban gay men had toward celebrities, particularly female movie stars. When he wrote this, Judy Garland and Joan Crawford, as well as Turner, were considered gay icons. The gay community's reverence for glamorous actresses was always accompanied by a sense of ironic amusement, an attitude that O'Hara clearly conveys in this poem.
This poem was originally published in O'Hara's 1964 collection Lunch Poems, so named because most of them were written during his lunch hour while working in New York. It is one of his most frequently anthologized poems and is also available in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, published in
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