Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century
and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov,
Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial
contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry,
'which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the
American poetic tradition.' Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in
1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in
New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art, where
he was an associate curator. O'Hara's untimely death in 1966 at the
age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, 'the
biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was
killed.' This collection is a reissue of a volume first published
by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the
flawless rhythm underlying O'Hara's conviction that to write
poetry, indeed to live, 'you just go on your nerve.'
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