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Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
April 1, 2003
Pages
305
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374139803
ISBN-10
0374139806
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.45 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$25.00
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§As reported by publisher
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A portrait of the city life poet by a close friend and roommate considers the inspirations for some of his greatest works, work as a curator and artist advocate at the Museum of Modern Art, and early death in a car accident.
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An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of OâHaraâs poetry
Joe LeSueur lived with Frank OâHara from 1955 until 1965, the years when OâHara wrote his greatest poems, including âTo the Film Industry in Crisis,â âIn Memory of My Feelings,â âHaving a Coke with You,â and the famous Lunch Poemsâso called because OâHara wrote them during his lunch break at the Museum of Modern Art, where he worked as a curator. (The artists he championed include Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.) The flowering of OâHaraâs talent, cut short by a fatal car accident in 1966, produced some of the most exuberant, truly celebratory lyrics of the twentieth century. And it produced Americaâs greatest poet of city life since Whitman.
Alternating between OâHaraâs poems and LeSueurâs memory of the circumstances that inspired them, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank OâHara is a literary commentary like no otherâan affectionate, no-holds-barred memoir of OâHara and the New York that animated his work: friends, lovers, movies, paintings, streets, apartments, music, parties, and pickups. This volume, which includes many of OâHaraâs best-loved poems, is the most intimate, true-to-life portrait we will ever have of this quintessential American figure and his now legendary times.
Joe LeSueur lived with Frank OâHara from 1955 until 1965, the years when OâHara wrote his greatest poems, including âTo the Film Industry in Crisis,â âIn Memory of My Feelings,â âHaving a Coke with You,â and the famous Lunch Poemsâso called because OâHara wrote them during his lunch break at the Museum of Modern Art, where he worked as a curator. (The artists he championed include Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.) The flowering of OâHaraâs talent, cut short by a fatal car accident in 1966, produced some of the most exuberant, truly celebratory lyrics of the twentieth century. And it produced Americaâs greatest poet of city life since Whitman.
Alternating between OâHaraâs poems and LeSueurâs memory of the circumstances that inspired them, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank OâHara is a literary commentary like no otherâan affectionate, no-holds-barred memoir of OâHara and the New York that animated his work: friends, lovers, movies, paintings, streets, apartments, music, parties, and pickups. This volume, which includes many of OâHaraâs best-loved poems, is the most intimate, true-to-life portrait we will ever have of this quintessential American figure and his now legendary times.
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9780374139803 | details & prices | 305 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A portrait of the city life poet by a close friend and roommate considers the inspirations for some of his greatest works, work as a curator and artist advocate at the Museum of Modern Art, and early death in a car accident.
About: A portrait of the city life poet by a close friend and roommate considers the inspirations for some of his greatest works, work as a curator and artist advocate at the Museum of Modern Art, and early death in a car accident.
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