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Frank O'Hara

    Frank O'Hara was a pivotal figure in American poetry, celebrated for his conversational and spontaneous style that intimately intertwined with daily life and visual arts. His poems frequently capture immediate impressions and introspections, reflecting his deep engagement with the New York art scene. O'Hara masterfully blended profound themes with a playful lightness, carving out a unique space in the literary landscape.

    Meditations in an Emergency
    Lunch Poems
    Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems
    The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara
    Selected Poems
    • 2022
    • 2013

      Poems Retrieved

      • 254 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      A reissue of this classic, essential companion to Frank O'Hara's Collected Poems, with a new introduction by Bill Berkson.

      Poems Retrieved
    • 2009

      Selected Poems

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period.

      Selected Poems
    • 2005

      Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara

      • 180 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      An edition of the Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth- century.

      Selected Poems: Frank O'Hara
    • 2003

      Frank O'Hara composed poems any time, any place, collaborating with artists, dancers, musicians and poets. The city was a place of endless possibility, and he captured the pace and rhythms, the quandaries and exhilarations of city life. This selection of his work is edited by Mark Ford. schovat popis

      Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems
    • 2001

      50th anniversary hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the New York School of poetry.

      Lunch Poems
    • 1995

      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. 

      The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    • 1980

      American Way of Working

      A Collection of Writings from Henry David Thoreau to Joseph Heller

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      American Way of Working