Craft: Frank Lima

Frank Lima (1939-2013), a protégé of Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch, was exceptional in many ways. Born to a Mexican father and Puerto Rican mother in Spanish Harlem, Lima was the only Latino poet associated with the New York School.

Lima: “I think of you because / if I don’t I’ll disappear / like a thousand years / in a snake’s eye” [photo by Francesco Scavullo]

[CONTENT WARNING for remainder: sexual explicit content, including mention of child sexual abuse and descriptions of the experience of child sexual abuse as recalled in poems by Lima]