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9780872866171 English 0872866173 "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene. . . . A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."--"The New York Times Book Review""Lunch Poems," 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 "The New American Poetry" 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 ]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems--casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading--that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from the original typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of "Lunch."Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 in Maryland and grew up in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the New York school of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. He died in 1966., "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene...A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."- 'The New York Times Book Review' 'Lunch Poems', 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 'The New American Poetry' 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!]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems-casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading-that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from theoriginal typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of 'Lunch'. Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 in Maryland and grew up in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the New York school of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. He died in 1966., Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene. . . . A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."--"The New York Times Book Review""Lunch Poems," 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 "The New American Poetry" 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 ]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems--casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading--that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from the original typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of "Lunch." Frank O'Hara was born on March 27th, 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Grafton, a suburb of Worchester, in central Massachusetts. He studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to 1944 and served in the South pacific and Japan as a sonarman on the destroyer USS Nicholas during World War II. With funding made available to veterans he attended Harvard University, where his first poems were published in the "Harvard Advocate." He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan and received his M.A. in English literature in 1951. That autumn O'Hara moved into an apartment in New York City with Joe LeSeur, who would be his roommate and lover for the next eleven years. Known throughout his life for his extreme sociability, passion, and warmth, O'Hara had hundreds of friends and lovers throughout his life, many from the New York art and poetry worlds. Soon after arriving in New York, he was employed at the Museum of Modern Art, selling post cards at the admissions desk, and began to write seriously. O'Hara was active in the art world, working as a reviewer for "Artnews," and in 1960 was Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. He was also friends with the artist Willem de Kooning, Norman Bluhm, Larry Rivers, and Joan Mitchell. During his lifetime O'Hara was known as a "poet among painters," part of a group of poets--John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Bill Berkson, and Barbara Guest--who seemed to find inspiration and support from the painters they chose to associate with. In the early morning hours of July 24, 1966, O'Hara was struck by a dune buggy on the Fire Island beach. He died the next day of a ruptured liver. O'Hara was buried in Green River Cermetery on Long Island. The painter Larry Rivers, a longtime friend and lover of O'Hara's, delivered one of the eulogies, along with Bill Berkson, Edwin Denby, and Rene d'Haroncourt., Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, 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 The New American Poetry 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!].This 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 Lunch."Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theater 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, The New York Times "City Lights' new reissue of the slim volume includes aclutch 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 Lunch Poems?' O'Hara asks Ferlinghetti. 'I wonder if it doesn't sound too much like an echo of Reality Sandwiches or Meat Science Essays.' 'What the hell,' Ferlinghetti replies, 'so we'll have to change the name of City Lights to Lunch Counter Press.'"- Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review "Frank O'Hara's famed collection was first published in 1964, and, to mark the fiftieth anniversary, City Lights is printing a special edition." - The New Yorker "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, The Atlantic "I hope that everyone will delight in the new edition of Frank's LUNCH POEMS. The correspondence between Lawrence and Frank is great. Frank was just 33 when he wrote to Lawrence in 1959 and 38 when LUNCH POEMS was published! The fact that City Lights kept Frank's LUNCH POEMS 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"Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems - 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, Los Angeles Times "
9780872866171 English 0872866173 "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene. . . . A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."--"The New York Times Book Review""Lunch Poems," 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 "The New American Poetry" 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 ]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems--casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading--that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from the original typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of "Lunch."Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 in Maryland and grew up in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the New York school of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. He died in 1966., "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene...A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."- 'The New York Times Book Review' 'Lunch Poems', 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 'The New American Poetry' 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!]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems-casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading-that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from theoriginal typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of 'Lunch'. Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 in Maryland and grew up in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the New York school of poets, a group that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. He died in 1966., Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" "Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene. . . . A Pan piping on city streets, he luxuriates in the uninhibited play of his imagination."--"The New York Times Book Review""Lunch Poems," 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 "The New American Poetry" 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 ]." These are the compelling and formally inventive poems--casually composed, for example, in his office at the Museum of Modern Art, in Times Square during his lunch hour, or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading--that made him a cult hero. This new fiftieth-anniversary edition contains facsimile reproductions of poems from the original typescript, along with a selection of previously unpublished correspondence between City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and O'Hara, and between Donald Allen and O'Hara that shed new light on the preparation of "Lunch." Frank O'Hara was born on March 27th, 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Grafton, a suburb of Worchester, in central Massachusetts. He studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to 1944 and served in the South pacific and Japan as a sonarman on the destroyer USS Nicholas during World War II. With funding made available to veterans he attended Harvard University, where his first poems were published in the "Harvard Advocate." He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan and received his M.A. in English literature in 1951. That autumn O'Hara moved into an apartment in New York City with Joe LeSeur, who would be his roommate and lover for the next eleven years. Known throughout his life for his extreme sociability, passion, and warmth, O'Hara had hundreds of friends and lovers throughout his life, many from the New York art and poetry worlds. Soon after arriving in New York, he was employed at the Museum of Modern Art, selling post cards at the admissions desk, and began to write seriously. O'Hara was active in the art world, working as a reviewer for "Artnews," and in 1960 was Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. He was also friends with the artist Willem de Kooning, Norman Bluhm, Larry Rivers, and Joan Mitchell. During his lifetime O'Hara was known as a "poet among painters," part of a group of poets--John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Bill Berkson, and Barbara Guest--who seemed to find inspiration and support from the painters they chose to associate with. In the early morning hours of July 24, 1966, O'Hara was struck by a dune buggy on the Fire Island beach. He died the next day of a ruptured liver. O'Hara was buried in Green River Cermetery on Long Island. The painter Larry Rivers, a longtime friend and lover of O'Hara's, delivered one of the eulogies, along with Bill Berkson, Edwin Denby, and Rene d'Haroncourt., Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, 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 The New American Poetry 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!].This 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 Lunch."Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, the little black dress of American poetry books, redolent of cocktails and cigarettes and theater 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, The New York Times "City Lights' new reissue of the slim volume includes aclutch 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 Lunch Poems?' O'Hara asks Ferlinghetti. 'I wonder if it doesn't sound too much like an echo of Reality Sandwiches or Meat Science Essays.' 'What the hell,' Ferlinghetti replies, 'so we'll have to change the name of City Lights to Lunch Counter Press.'"- Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review "Frank O'Hara's famed collection was first published in 1964, and, to mark the fiftieth anniversary, City Lights is printing a special edition." - The New Yorker "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, The Atlantic "I hope that everyone will delight in the new edition of Frank's LUNCH POEMS. The correspondence between Lawrence and Frank is great. Frank was just 33 when he wrote to Lawrence in 1959 and 38 when LUNCH POEMS was published! The fact that City Lights kept Frank's LUNCH POEMS 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"Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems - 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, Los Angeles Times "