Frank O'Hara now : new essays on the New York poet / edited by Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hampson, Robert.

Montgomery, Will.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

O'Hara, Frank.

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Literary scholars examine the work of US poet O'Hara (1926-66) from perspectives of the city, selves, and the work of others. Their topics include French Frank, distraction and adsorption on Second Avenue, the boring and the new in his poetry, his hatred, his poetics of breath, Alfred Leslie and the making of The Last Clean Shirt, and the Poem-Paintings of O'Hara and Norman Bluhm. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

'Housing the deliberations' : New York, war, and Frank O'Hara / Geoff Ward

Gesture in 1960 : toward literal situations / Lytle Shaw

French Frank / Rod Mengham

Distraction and absorption on Second Avenue / Andrea Brady

Stepping out with Frank O'Hara / David Herd

'A certain kneeness' : the boring and the new in Frank O'Hara's poetry / Tadeusz Piero

'Where air is flesh' : the Odes of Frank O'Hara / John Wilkinson

Close writing / Keston Sutherland

Naming the seam : on Frank O'Hara's "Hatred" / Richard Deming

'A gasp of laughter at desire?' Frank O"Hara's poetics of breath / Josh Robinson

Frank O'Hara, Alfred Leslie and the making of The last clean shirt / Daniel Kane

Kites and poses : attitudinal interfaces in Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan / Redell Olsen

'In fatal winds' : Frank O'Hara and Morton Feldman / Will Montgomery

'Footprints of a wild ballet' : the Poem-paintings of Frank O'Hara and Norman Bluhm / Brian Reed

Memory pieces : collage, memorial and the poetics of intimacy in Joe Brainard, Jasper Johns and Frank O'Hara / Nick Selby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1846312337

9781846312335

9781846312311

1846312310

OCLC:

651891087