Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara, Mark Ford (Editor)

$25.20

Publication Date: September 8th, 2009

Publisher:

Knopf

ISBN:

9780375711480

Pages:

288

Description

The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period.

About the Author

Frank O’Hara was the author of six volumes of poetry, the first of which was published in 1952. He was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and wrote numerous essays on painting and sculpture. He died in 1966 at the age of forty.

Mark Ford has published several books of poetry and is the author of the critical biography Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams.

Praise for Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Sensitively chosen and intelligently introduced . . . Ford’s selection makes it possible to see more clearly how inward O’Hara’s poetry was at its best . . . For O’Hara a poem was truthful when it was personal . . . [His] elegies succeed because long after he discarded any religious belief in immortality, he retained the aesthetic sensibility that took it seriously.”
—Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books