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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872866171 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100400810 02 0872866173 03 9780872866171 15 9780872866171 BB 1 A01 O'Hara, Frank Frank O'Hara <p> 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.</p> 01 eng 120 00 120 03 20 American;beat generation;Frank O'Hara;poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Beat Generation 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <p> "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene…. A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."—<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p> <p> <em>Lunch Poems,</em> 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 <em>The New American Poetry</em> 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 Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading—that made him a cult hero. This new limited 50th anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from the original typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O’Hara and between Donald Allen and O’Hara that shed new light on the preparation of Lunch.</p> <p> <br /> Frank O’Hara was born in 1926 in Maryland and grew up in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the New York poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. He died in 1966, struck by a dune buggy on the Fire Island beach.</p> 02 50th anniversary hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry. 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100400810/images/87286100400810L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100400810/images/87286100400810S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100400810 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20140610 08 16 oz