Frank O'Hara
Frank Oâ€™Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.â€,Frank Oâ€™Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for ,Art News, and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an associate curator. O'Haraâ€™s untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, "the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed.â€ This collection is a reissue of a volume first published by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the flawless rhythm underlying O'Haraâ€™s conviction that to write poetry, indeed to live, "you just go on your nerve.â€
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Meditations in an Emergency