Description
Frank O’Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate (‘any time, any place’). This is not the whole O’Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked on with intense concentration, creating sequences that are inexhaustibly nuanced, full of surprise, heartbreak and laughter. There are analogies between his work and that of the painters he championed, Pollock, Kline and de Kooning among them.
He is resolutely metropolitan, and his metropolis is New York City. He brilliantly captured the pace and rhythms, quandaries and exhilarations, of its mid-twentieth-century life.
The Lakes of Coma 
Short Days, Long Shadows 
Let's Celebrate! 
Being Human 
In Person 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
My Family and Other Superheroes 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Life For Us 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Poems 
The Silvering