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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

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Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

"During the halcyon days of the Abstract Expressionist and Imaginative Realism movements, Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene."-New York Times

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by Donald Allen and with an introduction by John Ashbery, captures the full range of one of postwar America's most original and influential poets. Born in 1926, O'Hara became the quintessential voice of mid-century Manhattan, evolving a witty, mercurial, and glamorous urban poetry that captured the artistic scene of 1950s to '60s New York. Including poems from his dazzling early experimental verses of the late 1940s to his more reflective work before his untimely death at the age of forty, the collection reveals O'Hara's inventive voice, blending French post-symbolism, surrealist, and Dada techniques and the everyday American experience into a uniquely postmodern poetics. First published posthumously in 1972, this landmark collection affirms Frank O'Hara's central place in American poetry: witty, fantastical, vital.
Book Details
ISBN:
9780520430136
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
624
Authors:
Frank O'Hara
Published Date:
2026-03-03
Language:
English
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About Frank O'Hara

A central figure of the New York School, Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, writing many of his poems during the working day. His collections include Meditations in an Emergency (Grove Press, 1957) and Lunch Poems (City Lights, 1964). He died at age forty after being struck by a vehicle on Fire Island. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Knopf, 1971) won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1972.

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