Books by Frank O'Hara
Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
The first selected poems of a major poet who "wrote with more heart than any other North American poet of the twentieth century" (Rodney Jones, Parnassus)
More than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that are inextricable from the iconography of America: its rail yards, rivers, cities, and once vast natural beauty. Speaking in the unique lyrical voice that he called his "Ohioan," Wright created poems of immense sympathy for sociey's alienated and outcast figures and also of ardent wonder at the restorative power of nature.
Selected Poems fills a significant gap in Wright's bibliography: that of an accessible, carefully chosen collection to satisfy both longtime readers and those just discovering his work. Edited and with an introduction by Wright's widow, Anne, and his close friend the poet Robert Bly, who also wrote an introduction, Selected Poems is a personal, deeply considered collection of work with pieces chosen from all of Wright's books. It is an overdue--and timely--new view of a poet whose life and work encompassed the extremes of American life.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world. This edition also includes a special PS section with insights, interviews, and more—including a short piece by Nikki Giovanni entitled "Remembering Gwen."
By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all. In that memorable year of the March on Washington, Harper & Row released Brooks’s Selected Poems, which incorporated poems from her first three collections, as well as a selection of new poems. This edition of Selected Poems includes A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks's first published volume of poetry for which she became nationally known and which led to successive Guggenheim fellowships; Annie Allen, published one year before she became the first African American author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category; and The Bean Eaters, her fifth publication which expanded her focus from studies of the lives of mainly poor urban black Americans to the heroism of early civil rights workers and events of particular outrage—including the 1955 Emmett Till lynching and the 1957 school desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic "Auld Lang Syne," the romantic "A Red, Red Rose," and the patriotic "Scots What Hae." As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range—from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street―these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry."
That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth’s life—from “Tintern Abbey,” an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem, The Prelude. Also included are much-loved short works such as “I wandered as lonely as a Cloud,” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,” and the poignant “Lucy Gray.” These poems demonstrate Wordsworth’s astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.
The inaugural volume in a new program of selected poetry especially commissioned for Penguin Classics Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, explanatory notes, and an index of titles and first lines In his introduction, Wordswort biographer Stephen Gill examines the personal and political events that shaped the poet's career and traces the major themes that run through his work
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
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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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, Aiken remains a unique influence upon modern writers and critics today. In his lifetime, Aiken received many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1930 and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1954. He served as the Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1950-1952.
Selected Poems contains Aiken's own choice of the best and most representative of his poems, spanning more than forty years of his work. Harold Bloom has contributed a new Foreword to reintroduce Aiken to a new generation of readers. The inclusion of several pivotal poems from previous editions broadens the scope of the work to represent Aiken's legacy.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot’s early work.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any other poet about the significance of poetry itself in everyday life: “The imagination—frequently synonymous with the act of the mind, or poetry, for Stevens—is what gives life its savor, its sanction, its sacred quality.”
This rich and thorough selection—published in the 130th anniversary year of Stevens’s birth—carries us from the explosion of Harmonium in 1923 to the maturity of The Auroras of Autumn in 1950 and the magisterial Collected Poems published by Knopf in 1954. To be drawn in once more by “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” to name only a few, is to experience again the mystery of a poet who calls us to a higher music and to a deeper understanding of our vast and inarticulate interior world.
This essential volume for all readers of poetry reminds us of Stevens’s nearly unparalleled contribution to the art form and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A sampling from the oeuvre of one of the greatest living poets of the English language
Geoffrey Hill’s poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last fifty years. Imbued with the weight of history, morality, and language, his work reveals a deeply religious sensibility, a towering intellect, and an emotional complexity that are unrivaled in contemporary letters. Now, for the first time ever, readers can observe in one volume how Hill’s style took shape over time. This generous selection spans his career, beginning with poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, and following through to his stylistically distinct and critically acclaimed work Without Title. Including some of the poet’s strongest, most sensitive, and most brilliant pieces, this collection will reaffirm Hill’s reputation as “England’s best hope for the Nobel Prize.”
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its exquisite music. Yet, unlike many of his peers, Ungaretti has never been adequately presented to English readers. This large bilingual selection, translated with great sensitivity and fidelity by Andrew Frisardi, captures Ungaretti in all of his phases: from his early poems, written in the trenches of northern Italy during World War I, to the finely crafted erotic and religious poetry of his second period, to the visceral, elegiac poetry of the years following the death of his son and the occupation of Rome during World War II, to the love poems of the poet's old age.
Frisardi's in-depth introduction details the world in which Ungaretti's work took shape and exerted its influence. In addition to the poet's own annotations, an autobiographical afterword, "Ungaretti on Ungaretti," further illuminates the poet's life and art. Here is a compelling, rewarding, and comprehensive version of the work of one of the greatest modern European poets.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street―these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry."
That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Listen to what they did.
Don't listen to what they said.
What was written in blood
Has been set up in lead.
―from "Blood and Lead"
The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political poems that launched him into fame to the intimate illuminations of love―and loss of love―in his later work, Fenton's poetry has always been marked by formal daring, wit, and an abiding empathy for the victims of war and political oppression. With selections from all of his published work since The Memory of War, the entire text of his libretto The Love Bomb, and new, previously uncollected poems, Selected Poems is an imaginative and formal tour de force.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work.
Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his later major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem.
Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor.
Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco―the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equipped―by temperament, circumstance, or poetic gift―to engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn. This new Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by the poet August Kleinzahler, supplants the 1979 Selected, presenting more of the later work and providing a fuller retrospective account of the breadth and magnitude of Gunn's extraordinary achievement.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Considered by Victorians as the finest contemporary poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) gained much critical favor for his mastery of poetic technique, high-mindedness, and superb natural description. This volume contains a representative selection of his best works, including the famous long narrative poem "Enoch Arden," as well as a number of important lyrics, monologues, ballads, and other typical pieces. Among these are "The Lady of Shalott," "The Beggar Maid," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the Crannied Wall," and "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington." Also here are carefully chosen, uncut excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud," and "The Brook." With this inexpensive volume at their fingertips, students and lovers of poetry can enjoy a substantial sampling of Tennyson's still-admired, widely quoted verse.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
Generally considered among the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson has been read, studied, and admired by generations of literature students and poetry lovers. This modestly priced edition presents over 100 of her best-known and most-loved poems, reprinted from authoritative early editions. Unflinchingly honest, psychologically penetrating, and technically adventurous, the poems include such favorites as "The Chariot," "I taste a liquor never brewed," "The Snake," "I'm nobody, who are you?" "A Book," "There's a certain slant of light," "Hope," and many more.
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by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei
One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as “Little Siberia” with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei.
In his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry―the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature."
Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Acclaiming the late Eugenio Montale (1897-1981) as “one of the most important poets of the contemporary West,” the Swedish Academy awarded him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, presents sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale’s first three books––Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones), Le occasioni (The Occasions), and La bufera e altro (The Storm and Other Things)––as rendered by sixteen translators, many of them distinguished poets in their own right.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Richard Tillinghast, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, first came to Kinvara, County Galway, for a year in 1990 and has long since been a distinctive presence on the Irish literary scene. He now lives in South Tipperary. Introduced by poet and critic Dennis O'Driscoll, Selected Poems is Tillinghast's tenth book of poems and gathers the poet's own choice of some forty years of his work. "Tillinghast's poems range confidently among different cultures. He has a sense of history as a living force. His experiments in meter, rhyme, and free verse are important. He is a wonderfully gifted poet, one of the few. -Louis Simpson
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."Tony Hoagland
of all things standing furthest
from what is real, stand these trees
shaking with dispensable joy . . .
Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It, a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow, a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
Poetry. A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master, SELECTED POEMS gathers together the finest work from her distinguished and inimitable poetic career, showcasing the arc of her development as one of the most brilliant, expert and hilarious practitioners of the art. Anyone who wishes for poetry to be both richly challenging and thoroughly entertaining, need look no further than this monolithic retrospective.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
A collection to introduce English readers to the wonders of Lorca's poetry This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. Most of all, Lorca's poems are admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences ― Spanish folk traditions of his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel ― stream throughout Lorca's work.
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Selected Poems
by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast
"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."―Randall Jarrell
The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published.
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Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara
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.
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara
Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
"During the halcyon days of the Abstract Expressionist and Imaginative Realism movements, Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene."--New York Times
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by Donald Allen and with an introduction by John Ashbery, captures the full range of one of postwar America's most original and influential poets. Born in Massachusetts in 1926, O'Hara became the quintessential voice of mid-century Manhattan, evolving a witty, mercurial, and glamorous urban poetry that captured the artistic scene of 1950s to '60s New York. Including poems from his dazzling early experimental verses of the late 1940s to his more reflective work before his untimely death at the age of forty, the collection reveals O'Hara's inventive voice, blending French post-symbolism, surrealist, and Dada techniques and the everyday American experience into a uniquely postmodern poetics. First published posthumously in 1972, this landmark collection affirms Frank O'Hara's central place in American poetry: witty, fantastical, vital.
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Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 19)
by Frank O'Hara
Exquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry, Frank O'Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.
Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental The New American Poetry in 1960, it contains some of the poet's best known works including "The Day Lady Died," "Ave Maria," and "Poem" [Lana Turner has collapsed!]. These are the compelling and formally inventive poems—casually composed, for example, in his office at The Museum of Modern Art, in the street at lunchtime or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading—that made O'Hara a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets.
This new limited 50th anniversary edition contains a preface by John Ashbery and an editor's note by City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, along with facsimile reproductions of a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between Ferlinghetti and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of Lunch.
"I hope that everyone will delight in the new edition of Frank's LUNCH POEMS. The correspondence between Lawrence and Frank is great. Frank was just 33 when he wrote to Lawrence in 1959 and 38 when LUNCH POEMS was published! The fact that City Lights kept Frank's LUNCH POEMS in print all these years has been extraordinary, wonderful and a constant comfort. Hurray for independent publishers and independent bookstores. Many thanks always to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and everyone at City Lights." —Maureen O'Hara, sister of Frank O'Hara
"O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"As collections go, none brings . . . quality to the fore more than the thirty-seven Lunch Poems, published in 1964 by City Lights."—Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review
"What O'Hara is getting at is a sense of the evanescence, and the power, of great art, that inextricable contradiction — that what makes it moving and transcendent is precisely our knowledge that it will pass away. This is the ethos at the center of Lunch Poems: not the informal or the conversational for their own sake but rather in the service of something more intentional, more connective, more engaged." —David L. Ulin, Los Angeles TImes
"The collection broadcasts snark, exuberance, lonely earnestness, and minute-by-minute autobiography to a wide, vague audience—much like today's Twitter and Facebook feeds."—Micah Mattix, The Atlantic
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Meditations in an Emergency
by Frank O'Hara
Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.
Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.” Frank O’Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an associate curator. O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed.”.
This collection is a reissue of a volume first published by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the flawless rhythm underlying O’Hara’s conviction that to write poetry, indeed to live, you just go on your nerve.”
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Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
by Frank O'Hara
Essential poems by the late New York poet.
Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry.
Edited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental The New American Poetry in 1960, it contains some of the poet's best known works including "The Day Lady Died," "Ave Maria," and "Poem" [Lana Turner has collapsed!]. These are the compelling and formally inventive poems―casually composed, for example, in his office at The Museum of Modern Art, in the street at lunchtime or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading―that made O'Hara a dynamic leader of the "New York School" of poets.
"O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age."―Dwight Garner, New York Times
"As collections go, none brings . . . quality to the fore more than the thirty-seven Lunch Poems, published in 1964 by City Lights."―Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review
"What O'Hara is getting at is a sense of the evanescence, and the power, of great art, that inextricable contradiction ― that what makes it moving and transcendent is precisely our knowledge that it will pass away. This is the ethos at the center of Lunch Poems: not the informal or the conversational for their own sake but rather in the service of something more intentional, more connective, more engaged." ―David L. Ulin, Los Angeles TImes
"The collection broadcasts snark, exuberance, lonely earnestness, and minute-by-minute autobiography to a wide, vague audience―much like today's Twitter and Facebook feeds."―Micah Mattix, The Atlantic
"Sweet poems, funny, exhilarating, spontaneous, subversive, poignant, and sometimes―often―more deeply, even darkly moving. But above all sweet. Probably a greater proportion of O’Hara’s poems can be read for sheer pleasure than the poems of any other 20th-century writer. This slim volume is his liveliest, most distilled and delectable single collection. Quintessential O’Hara, and such a bargain!"―Lloyd Schwartz, Grolier Poetry Book Shop
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Poems Retrieved (City Lights/Grey Fox)
by Frank O'Hara
Originally published under Donald Allen's classic Grey Fox Press imprint, Poems Retrieved is a substantial part of Frank O'Hara's oeuvre, containing over two hundred pages of previously unpublished poetry discovered after the publication of his posthumous Collected Poems in 1971. Featuring a new introduction by O'Hara expert and friend, poet and art critic Bill Berkson, Retrieved has been completely reformatted and is essential for any reader of twentieth century poetry. As Berkson writes, "The breadth of what Frank O'Hara took to be poetry is reflected in the many kinds of poems he wrote. . . . Turning the pages of any of his collections, you wonder what he didn't turn his hand to, what variety of poem he left untried or didn't, in some cases, as if in passing, anticipate."
Among the most significant post-war American poets, Frank O'Hara grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, graduating from Harvard in 1950. After earning an MA at the University of Michigan in 1951, O'Hara moved to New York, where he began working for the Museum of Modern Art and writing for Art News. By 1960, he was named the assistant curator of painting and sculpture exhibitions at MOMA. Along with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler and Barbara Guest, he is considered an original member of the New York School. Though he died in a tragic accident in 1966, recent references to O'Hara on TV shows like Mad Men or Thurston Moore's new record evidence our culture's continuing fascination with this innovative poet.
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