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16 reviews
Frank O'Hara

University of California Press, 1995

The missing link
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 ...

Writings On Cy Twombly
Frank O'Hara, Brooks Adams, ...

Schirmer/Mosel, 2003

While Cy Twombly was still a student, his inspiring work attracted the attention of art critics and art historians, and also prompted poets, philosophers, essayists, and fellow artists to write about him. In the present volume, long-time collaborator Nicola Del Roscio brings together a total of 43 contemporary commentaries on Twombly in the form of poems, exhibition reviews, letters, philosophical essays, and discussions of art history, dating ...

Meditations in an Emergency

4 reviews
Frank O'Hara

Grove Press, 1996

"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again and interesting and modern...
The country is gray and brown and white and trees. Snows and skies of laughter always diminishing. Less funny, not just darker, not just gray. It may be the coldest day of the year. What does he think of that...I mean, what do I? And if I do...perhaps I am myself again." The above was quoted from the voice over narration at the end of the second season premiere of "Mad Men" on ...

In Memory Of My Feelings
Frank O'Hara, Kynaston McShine, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

Frank O'Hara began working at the front desk of The Museum of Modern Art in order to see the exhibitions as often as possible. During his lunch breaks he wrote poetry, sometimes pausing mid-meal to pen his seemingly effortless, spontaneous verses, which were stitched together from the events and sentiments of his daily life. These writings made him into one of the most important American poets of his generation. Eventually, he became an ...

The Nancy Book
Joe Brainard

Siglio Press, 2008

From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember ) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence. In The Nancy Book , Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical ...

Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

6 reviews
Frank O'Hara

City Lights Publishers, 2001

Diversions and Daydreams
The perfect introduction to the poetry of O'Hara, "Lunch Poems" is a celebration of life in New York City with art, poetry, music, friends, and of course, the movies. This book contains 'Ave Maria' with the marvelous opening lines: Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but ...

The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara

2 reviews
Frank O'Hara

Vintage, 1974

The Perfect Lunch Date
It's not exactly pocket-sized, but this volume can be conveniently and inconspicuously carried to lunch uptown, midtown, downtown, or out of town. There is a great collection of poems here (no plays), from the short and sweet to the longer and sweeter. All set in beautiful type on nice, formal heavier paper and with the inclusion of "Personism: A Manifesto" for an introduction and the cover ...

Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman

5 reviews
Morton Feldman, Frank O'Hara

Exact Change, 2001

a primary document of the American avant-garde
" The day Jackson Pollock died I called a certain man I knew- a very great painter-and told him the news. After a long pause he said, in a voice so low it was barely a whisper,' That son of a b---he did it'. . . . With this supreme gesture Pollock had wrapped up an era and walked away from it." Feldman was very much part of that era, the Fifties when American art was becoming the most important ...

Selected Poems

3 reviews
Frank O'Hara

Knopf, 2008

the brink of explosive jubilance
Gracious, charming, witty, sassy, spontaneous, irreverent, joyful, campy, insouciant--Frank O'Hara's poetry always brings to mind the best sort of adjectives, those that celebrate life, even as it turns toward eulogy and lament. "No more dying," dares the refrain from O'Hara's "Ode to Joy," and Mark Ford, in editing this long-overdue new selection, has done the excellent and necessary task of ...

Poems Retrieved

1 review
Frank O'Hara

Grey Fox Press, 2001

A fitting title
Frank O'Hara had a very definite conception of poetry (read the wonderful essay "Personism: a manifesto" included at the end of his Collected Poems). As a result of his convictions he often wrote a poem and gave it away immediately to a friend, acquaintance - whomever he had written it for, or about, or who he felt should have it. This is all relevant becuase once his Collected Poems were ...

Frank O'hara: Poems from the Tibor De Nagy Editions, 1952-1956

1 review
Frank O'Hara

Small Press Distribution, 2006

What a discovery!
Its amazing to be able to read these poems again as the Frank O'Hara Collected Poems has been out of print for some time. I had no idea that Tibor de Nagy had this incredible history of publishing and such a long association with O'Hara. The book reminds me all over again of how much I love his poems and why he is considered such an influential voice to so many younger poets. The cover design ...

Art Chronicles: 1954-1966
Frank O'Hara

George Braziller, 1991

What's With Modern Art?
Frank O'Hara

Mike & Dales Pr, 1999

Cultual Writing. Art Criticism. "In the process of gathering material for his marvelous comprehensive bibliography of Frank O'Hara's writings (Garland Publishing, 1980), Alexander Smith, Jr. (1948-1987) discovered "Teens Quiz a Critic"What's With Modern Art?" He also retyped practically all of the short reviews O'Hara wrote for Art News. Alex's typescripts formed the basis from which the present selection was made." (from " ...

Amorous Nightmares of Delay (PAJ Books)

1 review
Frank O'Hara

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

experimental theater with a sense of humor
Much like his poems, Frank O'Hara's plays are hit-or-miss. Most of them were clearly written in a matter of minutes, and never intended for production. Many are simply inside jokes about his group of friends. But the good plays have no equal in the experimental theater of the 50's and 60's. "The General Returns From One Place to Another," one of the few in this collection that was actually ...

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