Meditations in an Emergency

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Grove Press, 1967 - 52 pagini

Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.

Frank O'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."

Frank O'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'Hara'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.”.

This collection is a reissue of a volume first published by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the flawless rhythm underlying O'Hara's conviction that to write poetry, indeed to live, "you just go on your nerve."

 

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To the Harbormaster
1
The eager note on my door
2
To the Film Industry in Crisis
3
At night Chinamen jump
6
Blocks
7
Les Etiquettes jaunes
9
Aus einem April
10
River
11
Jane Awake
26
A Mexican Guitar
28
Chez Jane
29
Two Variations
30
Ode
31
Invincibility
33
Poem in January
36
Meditations in an Emergency
38

There I could never be a boy
12
On Rachmaninoffs Birthday
14
The Hunter
15
For Grace After a Party
17
On Looking at La Grande Jatte the Czar Wept Anew
18
Romanze or The Music Students
20
The ThreePenny Opera
22
A Terrestrial Cuckoo
24
For James Dean
41
Sleeping on the Wing
44
Radio
46
Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
47
For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage
49
Mayakovsky
50
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afternoon autumn beautiful blood blue brown canoe chamois clear big eyes clouds cold cries Crossing the Delaware cupiditous Czar Wept Anew Delaware divine door dreams eager note ears earth eating Etiquettes jaunes eyelid face fandango feel feet Film Industry filth fist flesh flowers friends funny glistening gondola grass green hair hand Harbormaster hated heart Industry in Crisis James Dean Jane Awake Janice and Kenneth Jatte Kenneth to Voyage La Grande Jatte Larry Rivers Leaf leap lips Mackie Mackie's maelstrom March Mayakovsky Meditations Mexican Guitar moon-like Museum of Modern Music Students never night Chinamen jump noose Passions Poem in January Rachmaninoff's Birthday rain reclining and wiggling reeling rhinestone roll Romanze Russia shoulders sleep smile smoke someone speed Strip surf was full tears Terrestrial Cuckoo there's thought Three-Penny Opera trees turn Violet voices Washington Crossing whispering wind

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Despre autor (1967)

Frank O'Hara 1926-1966 Poet Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore, MD and raised in Massachusetts. He served in the Navy and then studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan. From 1952 to 1966, O'Hara was on the staff at the Museum of Modern Art. He was a critic and a playwright and stayed active in the art scene. O'Hara published six books of poetry from 1952 until his death. Frank O'Hara died in 1966 when he was run down by a dune buggy on Fire Island. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen (Knopf, 1971), the first of several posthumous collections, shared the 1972 National Book Award for Poetry.

Informații bibliografice

TitluMeditations in an Emergency
AutorFrank O'Hara
Edițieretipărită
EditorGrove Press, 1967
ISBN0802134521, 9780802134523
Lungime52 pagini
  
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