{"title":"Frank O'Hara","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank O'Hara's work offers a vibrant glimpse into the pulse of urban life, blending spontaneous emotion with sharp cultural observation. His poetry, seen in collections like \u003cem\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMeditations in an Emergency\u003c\/em\u003e, captures moments of everyday beauty and unexpected intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the Arts \u0026amp; Culture sphere, his writing invites readers into a world where the personal meets the artistic, revealing the rhythms of city living and the nuances of human connection with wit and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"meditations-in-an-emergency-by-frank-ohara-9781611856569","title":"Meditations in an Emergency","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeditations in an Emergency\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46521393086700,"sku":"9781611856569","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24499503482761.jpg?v=1749011316"},{"product_id":"lunch-poems-by-frank-ohara-9780872860353","title":"Lunch Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eImportant poems by the late New York poet published in \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear\u003c\/i\u003e and stranger places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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,\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As collections go, none brings. . .quality to the fore more than thethirty-seven \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1964 by City Lights.\" --Nicole Rudick,\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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,\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles TImes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080538702060,"sku":"9780872860353","price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21100113482498.jpg?v=1765227689"},{"product_id":"meditations-in-an-emergency-by-frank-ohara-9780802134523","title":"Meditations in an Emergency","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, alongside 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. This movement, \"by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank 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 \u003cem\u003eArt News\u003c\/em\u003e and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he served as 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486904369388,"sku":"9780802134523","price":47.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d5e33a63aec82d3293240fefff8ba4a7.jpg?v=1775778560"},{"product_id":"lunch-poems-by-frank-ohara-9780872866171","title":"Lunch Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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!].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new limited 50th anniversary edition contains a preface by John Ashbery and an editor's note by City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, along with facsimile reproductions of a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between Ferlinghetti and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Frank O'Hara's \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theatre tickets and phonograph records, turns 50 this year. It seems barely to have aged... This is a book worth imbibing again, especially if you live in Manhattan, but really if you're awake and curious anywhere. 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"City Lights' new reissue of the slim volume includes a clutch of correspondence between O'Hara and Lawrence Ferlinghetti... in which the two poets hash out the details of the book's publication: which poems to consider, their order, the dedication, and even the title. 'Do you still like the title \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e?' O'Hara asks Ferlinghetti. 'I wonder if it doesn't sound too much like an echo of \u003ci\u003eReality Sandwiches\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eMeat Science Essays\u003c\/i\u003e.' 'What the hell,' Ferlinghetti replies, 'so we'll have to change the name of City Lights to Lunch Counter Press.'\" – Nicole Rudick, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Frank O'Hara's famed collection was first published in 1964, and, to mark the fiftieth anniversary, City Lights is printing a special edition.\" – \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The volume has never gone out of print, in part because O'Hara expresses himself in the same way modern Americans do: Like many of us, he tries to overcome the absurdity and loneliness of modern life by addressing an audience of anonymous others.\" – Micah Mattix, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I hope that everyone will delight in the new edition of Frank's \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. The correspondence between Lawrence and Frank is great. Frank was just 33 when he wrote to Lawrence in 1959 and 38 when \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published! The fact that City Lights kept Frank's \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in print all these years has been extraordinary, wonderful and a constant comfort. Hurray for independent publishers and independent bookstores. Many thanks always to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and everyone at City Lights.\" – Maureen O'Hara, sister of Frank O'Hara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Frank O'Hara's \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e – which has just been reissued in a 50th anniversary hardcover edition – recalls a world of pop art, political and cultural upheaval and (in its own way) a surprising innocence.\" – David Ulin, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596799721708,"sku":"9780872866171","price":47.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780872866171-lunch-poems.jpg?v=1777942618"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/frank-ohara.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}