The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara

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ISBN-10: 0520201663
ISBN-13: 9780520201668
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 03/31/1995
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 1.50" H

The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara

byFrank O'Hara
Editor: Donald Allen
Introduction by: John Ashbery

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Price: $26.95

Overview

Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara reflects the poet’s growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.

  • Among the most significant post-war American poets, Frank O'Hara grew up in Grafton, MA, graduating from Harvard in 1950. After earning an MA at Michigan in 1951, O'Hara moved to New York, where he began working for the Museum of Modern Art and writing for Art News. By 1960, he was named Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions at MOMA. Along with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Barbara Guest, he is considered an original member of the New York School. Though he died in a tragic accident in 1966, recent references to O'Hara on TV shows like Mad Men or Thurston Moore’s new single evidence our culture’s continuing fascination with this innovative poet.

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"O'Hara's work seems to me to represent the last stage in the adaptation of twentieth-century avant-garde sensibility to poetry about contemporary American experience. In its music and its language and in its conception of the relation of poetry to the rest of life, it is a poetry which has already changed poets and others, and which promises to go on moving and changing them for a long time to come."–Kenneth Koch, "New Republic"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520201663
ISBN-13: 9780520201668
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 03/31/1995
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 1.50" H
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