Frank O’Hara is back on our radar, thanks to AMC’s “Mad Men”

YTD Sales for Frank O’Hara’s poetry collection Meditations in an Emergency first published by Grove Press in 1957 ”is up 218% ” after a mention on AMC’s Emmy nominated drama, Mad Men, a series about the male-dominated New York ad agency culture of the ’50s and ’60s. Publishers Weekly reports.

Among poets, O’Hara, who was gay, a curator at MoMA and a brilliant talker, is not an unlikely candidate for a brush with pop culture-fame. An original member of a group of poets dubbed the New York School, O’Hara’s short, free verse poems use chatty, accessible language to describe the goings-on in hip mid-century New York. Art, films and love affairs were among his favorite topics. Legions of fans and students have read him for decades.

I think old Frank would agree with me when I say: “Damn, those men look hot.”

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