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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780520201668
ISBN: 0520201663
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 586
Publication Date: March 31, 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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first paperback edition, intro John Ashbery
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One test of a fine poet for other poets is that she or he makes you want to write your own poems and gives you permission and the tools to do so. Frank O'Hara does this for me, as well as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Lautreamont, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Patrick Kavanaugh, Geoffrey Hill, Diane di Prima and others. When I begin to hit patches of rocky ground in my imagination and the hammer of Los falls from my hand, I reach for Frank O'Hara to find permission to write ... Read More
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Normally, I am not a fan of poetry. I am a fictional prose fan who often gets tangled up in the abstractions of poetry. With the exception of Rimbaud and WC Williams, I usually leave poetics of any kind to someone else. However, when I finished up a queer theory class with a reading of Frank O'Hara's poetry, I was absolutely stunned at his surprising way with words. I was transported back to my first reading of The Great Gatsby where I fell in love with (became obsessed with) Fitzgerald's poetic prose. ... Read More
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Here's an idea for Ph.D. candidates in American Lit, searching for that breakthrough dissertation topic: Frank O'Hara was the (almost-literal) bridge between, on the one hand, the high aethestic seriousness that began in English with Wilde, and culminated in early Modernists like Hart Crane, Eliot and Wallace Stevens; and on the other, what we might call the pan-aesthetic, media-saturated 'hyper-culture' of serious early 21st-century thought, which is equally at ease in poetry, movies, pop music, foreign ... Read More
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For those less famililar with O'Hara there is only one place to start: City Lights' superb little pocket collection, "Lunch Poems."
This collection is enormous, and much of it--especially the early work--is not stylistically representative of his best and most well-known work. It is also dreadfully organized. The poems are not presented by date of publication or date written. Nor do the poems include either date. That information is in a separate index--organized, infuriatingly, by date. ... Read More
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When the critical dust really settles, I think O'Hara will be seen as a crucial American poet -- in the ranks of Whitman, Dickinson and Stevens. Cultured, perceptive, meaningful, playful, and always funny, he took American poetry light-years beyond the "well-made" poets of the midcentury, and the tormented stylings of the 'confessionals' (Lowell, Plath, Berryman et al.)
He introduced a new kind of literary voice into serious poetry: highly personal, specific, catty, generous, vivid and oddly friendly, ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780520201668
ISBN: 0520201663
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 586
Publication Date: March 31, 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press