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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.
Useless Magic 
The Mighty Stream 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
The Cambridge Quarterly Volume One Number One 
River Lane 
Gold from the Stone 
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
The Moon Before Morning