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Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
During the halcyon days of the Abstract Expressionist and Imaginative Realism movements, Frank OHara was the laureate of the New York art York Times
The Collected Poems of Frank OHara, edited by Donald Allen and with an introduction by John Ashbery, captures the full range of one of postwar Americas most original and influential poets. Born in 1926, OHara 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 OHaras 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 OHaras central place in American poetry: witty, fantastical, vital.
Author: Frank OHara
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780520430136
Language: English
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