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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865976 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100475930 02 0872865975 03 9780872865976 15 9780872865976 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights/Grey Fox</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Poems Retrieved</TitleText> 1 A01 O'Hara, Frank Frank O'Hara Among the most significant post-war American poets, Frank O'Hara grew up in Grafton, MA, graduating from Harvard in 1950. After earning an MA at 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 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 single evidence our culture’s continuing fascination with this innovative poet. 01 eng 02 eng 254 00 254 03 20 poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 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Press imprint, Poems Retrieved is a substantial part of Frank O'Hara's oeuvre, containing over 200 pages of previously unpublished poetry discovered after the publication of his posthumous Collected Poems in 1971.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, Poems 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." Praise for Poems Retrieved: "The 'revolutionary piano thunders' and genius Frank O'Hara is re-retrieved in this essential condensary of solid gems, companion to all the other oeuvre. Yet no burden here. He wears his erudition and urgency lightly, and his kinetic juxtaposing 'moves' keep startling scholars, fans, and new converts alike. Pleasure morphs with a metaphysical zone as O'Hara's polished surface is cut into deeper to form complex and spirited love poems. They only grow stronger, more mysterious, through vintage time and space. When I met him I saw that jaunty leonine head leading the generous heart 'and my wristwatch became rusty with happiness.'"—Anne Waldman, poet and author of The Iovis Trilogy "While the reputation of many mid-twentieth century poets has declined, Frank O'Hara's keeps rising and rising: today's readers cannot get enough of his brave, jaunty, self-lacerating, funny, poignant, mysterious, and always surprising lyric. Poems Retrieved, originally published in 1977 by the late Don Allen's Grey Fox Press and long out of print, contains more than 200 pages of poems that Allen found after he had assembled the monumental Collected Poems for Alfred A. Knopf in 1971. As Allen noted in his Preface, and as Bill Berkson shows us in his excellent new introduction, these 'poems retrieved,' ranging as they do over O'Hara's entire career, are a necessary complement to the Collected, an integral component of the poet's oeuvre. No one interested in O'Hara's poetry—indeed, no one interested in the poetic ethos of the American 1950s and '60s—can afford to be without this volume."—Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University, and author of Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters "I'm proud to say that I still have my original copy of Poems Retrieved published by Grey Fox Press in the late 1970's. Many thanks and respect to City Lights, and of course to Donald Allen, for making these wonderful poems, by one of America's very greatest poets, available once again!"—Jim Jarmusch, filmmaker "The gentle intelligence and hip urbanity that Frank O’Hara expressed in his writing, indeed as a person, has nearly vanished, as much as the city that inspired him. His love for the wild vision, in all its artful abstraction, and his erudite passion for the common muse, has proven to be the true resonant poetry of our anxious human condition. We need him."—Thurston Moore, musician "I can't seem to get ahold of enough Frank O'Hara. Poems Retrieved operates as a kind of further casebook, offering separate luminous slivers of his day to day life. Readers will fill in the gaps themselves through lucid dreaming of Frank. His measure is always gushing forward to float the next incredible image, 'into the hot spring of her blood and her lips, wet with the flavor and the subtle scales, glitter against the horizon.' His colors rise to the surface of our language, etruscan gold split with flashing bolts of violet, and all of this action is still tailored to a very lived in (to die for) tone of voice. Poems Retrieved has been lovingly revamped and now includes a knockout introduction by Bill Berkson. He traces with ease and acuity O'Hara's early fearlessness within forms and his eventual rise to full strength, 'Not that posturing was gone, but that he had realized the postures appropriate for him and the poems.'"—Cedar Sigo, author of Stranger in Town "One of the many pleasures this volume offers is the opportunity to see O'Hara's lightning-quick mind in motion, comparing these newly discovered poems with the O'Hara that we already know. Behind 'The Day Lady Died' lingers the ghost of its beginnings, a tiny poem entitled '[it is 4:19 in Pennsylvania Station]' where we can see O'Hara rehearsing for the great spotlight number to come. Poems Retrieved is a boundless bonanza of O'Hara's version of delight."—D.A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys 02 A reissue of the classic, essential companion to O'Hara's "Collected Poems," with a new foreword by Bill Berkson. 08 "What we have here is a lot of poetry worth experiencing, and a radiant reminder that the later work is connected to gifts O'Hara displayed as a young man. Read and recite these poems. Dance a little while you do . . ." -- Barbara Berman, The Rumpus The Rumpus 08 "It looks like an excellent complement to the selected and collected poems of O'Hara that have been in circulation for so long."--Harriet Staff, The Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation 08 "[The poems] like O'Hara (was) are urbane and hip, filled with abstraction, humor, mystery, poignancy and lyricism. Here is what poetry was in the America of the 50s and 60s." Amos Lassen 08 "O'Hara (1926–66) is widely known as a member of the New York School of poets, whose unyielding craving for artistic expression infused his poetry with the culture of painters, writers, critics, and the movement of 20th-century art in America. His work's primary source, however, remains a singular, inimitable force as he once exclaimed, 'Poetry is life to me.' O'Hara's poems record and then stay in the occasion happening, moving even among the static. 'Why are there flies on the floor/ in February, and the snow mushing outside/ and the cats asleep? Because you came/ back from Paris, to celebrate your return.' Companion to an earlier volume, Early Writings (1977), and the original Collected Poems (1971), this is a portion of an anticipated complete collected poems of O'Hara. American poet Bill Berkson’s introduction comments on O'Hara's self-described act of writing as 'at once as mysterious and practical as there has ever been of the relation of poetry to experience.' VERDICT Add to the aforementioned companion volumes to create a loose Collected, or let stand as is. Either way retrieve an O’Hara collection--he's essential."--Annalisa Pesek Library Journal 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100475930/extras/PoemsRetrievedExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100475930/images/87286100475930L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100475930/images/87286100475930S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100475930 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 04 20130401 08 16 oz