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Robin Williams, Frank O’Hara, and brand-name specificity in mourning | Kyle Holtan
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Writer and researcher in Los Angeles. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Robin Williams, Frank O’Hara, and brand-name specificity in mourning. August 11, 2014. Every time a notable death hits me hard, I end up thinking about Frank O’Hara’s The Day Lady Died. His elegy for Billie Holliday. Thinking about it today, after Robin Williams’s death, makes it seem a very strange poem, and a kind of amazing contrast to the way we lived with and reacted to the news about Williams. Here, the presen...