This is Grove’s month for poetry: first their author Kay Ryan is named the new poet laureate, and now something really big: lead character on the celebrated show Mad Men Don Draper buys and reads Frank O’Hara’s poetry collection Meditations in an Emergency. He mails the book with a note to an unknown person and reads aloud a passage from the poem “Mayakovsky” during a montage sequence. All good enough to pop the book to No. 159 at Amazon–where it is now out of stock–and produce a number of print mentions. (In the first season, Draper was also seen reading […]
