A Hundred Suns

Three poems by Mayakovsky, O'Hara and Ken Kiff's close friend Martha Kapos shed light on the way Kiff, like Paul Klee before him, took a line for a walk, and then another line, and then yet another. Kapos' poem was inspired by A true account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island by Frank O'Hara, which was written in jealous awe after reading Mayakovsky's An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in a Summer Cottage.

The three poems, the three conversations between the three ...