In his latest book, A Question Mark Above the Sun, Kent Johnson suggests that Frank O’Hara did not write “A True Account” at all. Instead Johnson pretends that the poem was written by Kenneth Koch ...

This book of experimental criticism is, at the least, of forensic interest to readers of poetry and, at the most, a study in extremes of generosity and stinginess. Whether it is Johnson (Homage to the ...

This poem adroitly explores complex emotions around the speaker’s decision not to have a child. Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a ...