Why I’m Not a Painter and Other Poems

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Frank O'Hara

O’Hara composed poems ‘any time, any place’, collaborating with artists, dancers, musicians and poets. The city was a place of endless possibility, and he brilliantly captured the pace and rhythms, the quandaries and exhilarations of city life. This new selection of his work is edited and introduced by Mark Ford.

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Frank O’Hara composed poems ‘any time, any place’, collaborating with – or directly inspired by – a vibrant circle of artists, dancers, musicians and poets. For O’Hara, the city was a place of endless possibility, and he brilliantly captured the pace and rhythms, the quandaries and exhilarations, of mid-twentieth-century city life. His work radiates wit, immediacy and the grace of living ‘as variously as possible’. As Mark Ford notes in his introduction to this new selection, ‘O’Hara’s hip, glamorous, freewheeling self-celebrations both reflected and helped disseminate a new kind of confidence and daring in American poetry.’

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Weight 151 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 0.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Carcanet Poetry

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

93

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.54 (edition:21)

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