Frank O’Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet, jointly edited with Robert Hampson

Will Montgomery (Editor), Robert Hampson (Editor)

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Abstract

Frank O’Hara’s writing is central to any consideration of 20th century American poetry. This collection of essays, the first to be dedicated to O’Hara in nearly two decades, asks why O’Hara remains so important to 21st century readers and writers of poetry. The book is transatlantic in tone, combining American scholarship with a wide sampling of British writers. For many, O’Hara’s distinctive appeal depends on his witty depictions of urban experience, his relationship to the painters of Abstract Expressionism and the exhilarating immediacy of his poetic voice. Yet these chatty and approachable qualities coexist with a testing engagement with currents in European and American modernism. Frank O’Hara Now offers a comprehensive picture of the poet, presenting the conversational insouciance of the writing alongside its more intransigent features.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLiverpool
PublisherLiverpool University Press
Number of pages255
ISBN (Print) 9781846312335
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Frank O'Hara
  • New York School
  • Poetry
  • John Ashbery
  • Will Montgomery
  • Robert Hampson
  • Poetics
  • New York

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