Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New
American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger
places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered
glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type
up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply
has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed
misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence,
and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.
"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 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.
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