Frank O'Hara (1926-66) composed poems 'any time, any place',
collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians
and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O'Hara,
the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and
exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies
from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary
artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to
experience that makes O'Hara an indispensable poet of the
imaginative experience of the modern city. Reviewing this new
selection in the Guardian, Charles Bainbridge wrote: 'Frank O'Hara
is a wonderful poet - funny, moving, chatty, engaging,
enthusiastic, risk-taking, elegiac, supremely urban - and anything
that encourages people to read him is a good thing. His poems have
a disarming intimacy, a kind spontaneous enthusiasm and his work
proves, with tremendous elan and energy, that you don't have to
adopt a solemn tone in order to write poetry of seriousness and
purpose. As O'Hara himself says of the nature of writing in the
brilliantly comic "Personism: A Manifesto": "You just go on your
nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you
just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a
track star for Mineola Prep'." '
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