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Frank O'Hara: Selected Poemsby Frank O'hara
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O’Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951 he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the city’s artistic life. O’Hara’s style exudes an insistent, seductive glamour; his mercurial poems, at once open-ended and startlingly immediate, radiate an insouciant confidence that has lost none of its freshness over the decades. O’Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such as Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jasper Johns. Their achievements are movingly celebrated in many of his poems, while at the same time he paid loving tribute to popular idols such as James Dean and Lana Turner: Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of O’Hara’s tragically foreshortened career, including his drama, and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts such as “Personism,” in which O’Hara succinctly summed up his overall approach to poetry: “You just go on your nerve.” About the AuthorMark Ford has published several volumes of poetry and is the author of the critical biography Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and London Review of Books; he teaches in the English department at University College London. Table of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Texts Autobiographia Literaria Poem (At Night Chinamen Jump) Poem (The Eager Note on My Door Said “Call Me,) Today Memorial Day 1950 Travel Les Étiquettes Jaunes A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead Animals The Three-Penny Opera An Image of Leda Poem (If I Knew Exactly Why the Chestnut Tree) The Critic Poetry Song (I’m Going to New York!) A Rant Interior (With Jane) A Party Full of Friends A Terrestrial Cuckoo To Dick Commercial Variations Chez Jane Blocks October River Walking to Work Try! Try! On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday (Quick! A Last Poem Before I Go) To My Dead Father The Hunter Grand Central Homosexuality To a Poet Aus Einem April On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday (I Am So Glad that Larry Rivers Made a) Epigram for Joe Meditations in an Emergency To the Mountains in New York Mayakovsky In the Movies Music To John Ashbery For Grace, After a Party Poem (I Watched an Armory Combing Its Bronze Bricks) Poem (There I Could Never Be a Boy,) To the Harbormaster Une Journée de Juillet At the Old Place Nocturne Poem (Johnny And Alvin Are Going Home, Are Sleeping Now) To an Actor Who Died Thinking of James Dean My Heart To The Film Industry in Crisis On Seeing Larry Rivers’ WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE at the Museum of Modern Art Radio Sleeping on the Wing Joseph Cornell [It Is 1:55 in Cambridge, Pale and Spring Cool,] Poem (And Tomorrow Morning at 8 O’clock in Springfield, Massachusetts,) Poem (Instant Coffee With Slightly Sour Cream) Returning In Memory of My Feelings [And Leaving in a Great Smoky Fury] A Step Away From Them Digression on NUMBER 1, 1948 [It Seems Far Away and Gentle Now] Why I Am Not a Painter Poem Read at Joan Mitchell’s John Button Birthday Anxiety Louise Failures of Spring Two Dreams of Waking Ode to Joy Ode to Willem De Kooning Poem (I Live Above a Dyke Bar and I’m Happy.) Ode To Michael Goldberg (’s Birth and Other Births) Ode (To Joseph Lesueur) on the Arrow that Flieth by Day Ode on Causality Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island Fou-Rire To Gottfried Benn Heroic Sculpture The “Unfinished” The Day Lady Died Rhapsody Song (Is It Dirty) Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul Joe’s Jacket You Are Gorgeous and I’m Coming Poem (The Fluorescent Tubing Burns Like a Bobby-Soxer’s Ankles) “L’amour Avait Passé par Là” Poem (Hate Is Only One of Many Responses) Poem (I Don’t Know as I Get What D. H. Lawrence Is Driving at) Personal Poem Post the Lake Poets Ballad Naphtha Kein Traum Poem (Khrushchev Is Coming on the Right Day!) Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun) In Favor of One’s Time Les Luths Poem (Now the Violets Are All Gone, the Rhinoceroses, the Cymbals) Poem “À LA RECHERCHE D’ GERTRUDE STEIN ” Poem (Light Clarity Avocado Salad in the Morning) Hôtel Transylvanie [On the Vast Highway] Present Poem (That’s Not a Cross Look It’s a Sign of Life) Avenue A Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think A Little Travel Diary Beer for Breakfast Having a Coke with You Steps Ave Maria Fond Sonore [The Fondest Dream of] Cornkind Macaroni For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson Essay on Style Vincent and I Inaugurate a Movie Theatre Early on Sunday St. Paul and All That F. (Missive & Walk) I. # 53 Poem En Forme De Saw Metaphysical Poem Biotherm (For Bill Berkson) Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) First Dances Answer To Voznesensky & Evtushenko Again, John Keats, Or the Pot of Basil [The Light Presses Down] Walking Poem (I to You and You to Me The Endless Oceans of) Fantasy Cantata Little Elegy for Antonio Machado Appendix: Prose Personism: A Manifesto [Statement For THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY] [Statement For Paterson Society] V. R. Lang: A Memoir A Personal Preface Larry Rivers: A Memoir Short Chronology Index of Titles What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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