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Description for Lunch Poems
Paperback. Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Num Pages: 76 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 124 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often 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noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat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. "O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our ... Read more
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often 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noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat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. "O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
76
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Series
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
76
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872860353
SKU
V9780872860353
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Ref
99-6
About Frank O´hara
Among 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 ... Read more
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