Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O’Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951 he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the city’s artistic life. O’Hara’s style exudes an insistent, seductive glamour; his mercurial poems, at once open-ended and startlingly immediate, radiate an insouciant confidence that has lost none of its freshness over the decades. O’Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such as Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jasper Johns. Their achievements are movingly celebrated in many of his poems, while at the same time he paid loving tribute to popular idols such as James Dean and Lana Turner: Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of O’Hara’s tragically foreshortened career, including his drama, and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts such as “Personism,” in which O’Hara succinctly summed up his overall approach to poetry: “You just go on your nerve.”
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Francis Russell O’Hara
Francis Russell O’Hara, conhecido como Frank O'Hara (Baltimore, 27 de março de 1926 - Long Island, 25 de julho de 1966) foi um poeta, crítico e dramaturgo dos Estados Unidos, que formou o grupo fundador da chamada Escola de Nova Iorque, juntamente com John Ashbery e Kenneth Koch. O objetivo deste grupo era estabelecer um ponto de encontro entre o teatro, pintura, poesia e música, um denominador comum para seus temas e também uma linguagem comum. Apesar de escrever poesia quase todos os dias de sua vida adulta e de considerar a poesia um território para a diversão dos leitores, sua obra somente se tornou mais popular após a sua morte.
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