The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

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ISBN: 9780520201668 | 0520201663
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1995

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Available for the first time in paperback,The Collected Poems of Frank O'Harareflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.

Introduction

vii

A Short Chronology

xiii

How Roses Get Black

(1)

Gamin

(1)

Madrigal for a Dead Cat Named Julia

(1)

Oranges: 12 Pastorals

(4)

A Prayer to Prospero

(1)

Homage to R rose Selavy

(1)

Melmoth the Wanderer

(1)

Autobiographia Literaria

(1)

The Drummer

(1)

The Muse Considered as a Demon Lover

(1)

Poem (At night Chinamen jump)

(1)

Poem (The eager note on my door said ``Call me,)

(1)

Today

(1)

Concert Champetre

(1)

An 18th Century Letter

(1)

Memorial Day 1950

(1)

V.R. Lang

(1)

A Scene

(1)

A Quiet Poem

(1)

A Walk on Sunday Afternoon

(1)

Les Etiquettes jaunes

(1)

A Letter to Bunny

(1)

A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead

(1)

Poem (The flies are getting slower now)

(1)

Poem (Wheewhee)

(1)

The Spoils of Grafton

(1)

The Clown

(1)

Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day

(2)

Poem (God! love! sun! all dear and singular things!)

(1)

Animals

(1)

Morning

(2)

The Three-Penny Opera

(1)

A Note to John Ashbery

(1)

A Note to Harold Fondren

(1)

A Camera

(1)

A Poem in Envy of Cavalcanti

(1)

An Image of Leda

(1)

The Poet in the Attic

(1)

Early Mondrian

(1)

Night Thoughts in Greenwich Village

(1)

Poem (All the mirrors in the world)

(1)

Poem (Although I am a half hour)

(1)

Poem (If I knew exactly why the chestnut tree)

(1)

Poem (Let's take a walk, you)

(1)

Poem (The clouds ache bleakly)

(1)

Poem (The ivy is trembling in the hammock)

(1)

Poem (The stars are tighter)

(1)

Song for Lotta

(1)

The Argonauts

(1)

The Lover

(1)

The Young Christ

(1)

Women

(1)

The Critic

(1)

Original Sin

(1)

Poetry

(1)

Tarquin

(1)

Yet Another Fan

(1)

A Homage

(1)

A Poem about Russia

(1)

A Proud Poem

(1)

February

(1)

A Rant

(1)

Interior (With Jane)

(1)

Renaissance

(1)

A Postcard from John Ashbery

(1)

Poem (Ivy invades the statue.)

(1)

Drinking

(1)

Smoking

(1)

Panic Fear

(1)

Boston

(1)

A Pastoral Dialogue

(1)

Poem (I ran through the snow like a young Czarevitch!)

(1)

A Sonnet for Jane Freilicher

(1)

The Arboretum

(1)

A Terrestrial Cuckoo

(1)

On Looking at La Grande Jatte, the Czar Wept Anew

(1)

Ann Arbor Variations

(3)

A Chinese Legend

(1)

After Wyatt

(1)

The Satyr

(1)

The Tomb of Arnold Schoenberg

(1)

Poet

(1)

A Modern Soldier

(1)

A Mexican Guitar

(1)

Jane Awake

(1)

1951

(1)

Dido

(1)

Brothers

(1)

A City Winter

(2)

Ashes on Saturday Afternoon

(1)

Female Torso

(1)

In Hospital

(1)

Overlooking the River

(1)

Poem for a Painter

(1)

An Abortion

(1)

Sunset

(1)

Walking with Larry Rivers

(1)

Funnies

(1)

Washington Square

(1)

Elegy (Ecstatic and in anguish over lost days)

(1)

Elegy (Salt water. and faces dying)

(1)

Commercial Variations

(2)

Colloque Sentimental

(1)

Portrait of Grace

(1)

Jane at Twelve

(1)

Jane Bathing

(1)

Locarno

(1)

Mountain Climbing

(1)

Olive Garden

(1)

The Next Bird to Australia

(1)

Day and Night in 1952

(2)

Poem (The distinguished)

(1)

Beach Party

(1)

Easter

(4)

Steven

100

(1)

Poem (The hosts of dreams and their impoverished minions)

101

(1)

Chez Jane

102

(1)

Ducal Days

102

(1)

Two Shepherds, A Novel

103

(2)

October 26 1952 10:30 O'Clock

105

(1)

Aubade

106

(1)

Baargeld

106

(1)

Birdie

107

(1)

Blocks

108

(1)

Poem (He can rest. He has blessed him and hurt him)

109

(1)

October

109

(1)

Snapshot for Boris Pasternak

110

(4)

The Bathers

114

(1)

Alma

115

(1)

East River

116

(1)

Hatred

117

(4)

Hieronymus Bosch

121

(1)

Invincibility

121

(2)

River

123

(1)

Savoy

124

(1)

Sonnet on a Wedding

125

(1)

To a Friend

125

(1)

Walking to Work

126

(1)

Gli Amanti

126

(1)

Jove

127

(1)

To Larry Rivers

128

(1)

Study for Women on a Beach

128

(1)

The Starving Poet

129

(1)

3rd Avenue El

130

(1)

Barbizon

130

(1)

Sonnet (Lampooning blizzards, how your ocularities)

131

(1)

House

131

(1)

Manifesto

132

(1)

Poem (When your left arm twitches)

133

(1)

The Opera

133

(1)

[Then the weather changed.]

134

(1)

Two Variations

134

(1)

Very Rainy Light, An Eclogue

135

(1)

Poem (As you kneel)

136

(1)

Rent Collecting

137

(1)

Sonnet for Larry Rivers & His Sister

138

(1)

Round Robin

138

(1)

Second Avenue

139

(11)

Dolce Colloquio

150

(1)

3 Poems about Kenneth Koch

151

(1)

Two Epitaphs

152

(1)

Poem (He sighted her at the moment of recall.)

153

(1)

Homage to Andre Gide

154

(1)

Life on Earth

155

(4)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (Quick! a last poem before I go)

159

(1)

To My Mother

160

(1)

To My Dead Father

160

(1)

Sneden's Landing Variations

161

(3)

Appoggiaturas

164

(1)

Poem (I am not sure there is a cure,)

165

(1)

Romanze, or The Music Students

165

(2)

The Hunter

167

(1)

Lines to a Depressed Friend

168

(1)

Grand Central

168

(1)

Larry

169

(1)

Lebanon

170

(1)

Poem (Now it is light, now it is the calm)

171

(1)

The Apricot Season

171

(1)

Newsboy

172

(1)

The Spirit Ink

173

(1)

The Afternoon

173

(2)

To the Poem

175

(1)

Anacrostic

175

(1)

On a Passage in Beckett's Watt & About Geo. Montgomery

176

(1)

Unicorn

176

(1)

Poem (The little roses, the black majestic sails)

177

(1)

Lines Written in A Raw Youth

177

(1)

Southampton Variations

178

(2)

The Pipes of Pan

180

(1)

Mrs. Bertha Burger

181

(1)

Homosexuality

181

(1)

To Jane; And in Imitation of Coleridge

182

(3)

To a Poet

185

(1)

Aus einem April

186

(1)

Death

186

(1)

Spleen

187

(1)

Lines While Reading Coleridge's ''The Picture``

188

(1)

Kitville

188

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (Blue windows, blue rooftops)

189

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (I am so glad that Larry Rivers made a)

190

(1)

Poem in January

190

(2)

To Jane, Some Air

192

(1)

Three Rondels

192

(2)

My Heat

194

(1)

Homage to Pasternak's Cape Mootch

195

(1)

Ode (An idea of justice may be precious)

195

(2)

Meditations in an Emergency

197

(1)

To the Mountains in New York

198

(2)

3 Requiems for a Young Uncle

200

(1)

Mayakovsky

201

(1)

For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage

202

(1)

Two Boys

203

(1)

A Hill

203

(1)

[I kiss your cup]

204

(1)

Portrait

205

(1)

On the Way to the San Remo

205

(1)

In the Movies

206

(3)

[July is over and there's very little trace]

209

(1)

Music

210

(1)

To John Ashbery

211

(1)

Poem (Tempestuous breaths! we watch a girl)

211

(1)

Christmas Card to Grace Hartigan

212

(1)

2 Poems from the OHara Monogatari

212

(1)

To Gianni Bates

213

(1)

For Grace, After a Party

214

(1)

Love (A whispering far away)

214

(1)

Poem (I watched an armory combing its bronze bricks)

215

(1)

Poem (There I could never be a boy,)

216

(1)

To the Harbormaster

217

(1)

Hermaphrodite

218

(1)

Poem (Pawing the mound with his hairy legs)

219

(1)

The State of Washington

220

(1)

On Saint Adalgisa's Day

220

(1)

Choses passageres

221

(1)

Sonnet (The blueness of the hour)

222

(1)

Poem (The eyelid has its storms. There is the opaque fish-)

223

(1)

At the Old Place

223

(1)

A Whitman's Birthday Broadcast with Static

224

(1)

Nocturne

224

(1)

Poem (Johnny and Alvin are going home, are sleeping now)

225

(1)

Goodbye to Great Spruce Head Island

226

(1)

To an Actor Who Died

226

(1)

With Barbara at Larre's

227

(1)

For James Dean

228

(2)

Thinking of James Dean

230

(1)

My Heart

231

(1)

To the Film Industry in Crisis

232

(1)

Pearl Harbor

233

(1)

On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art

233

(1)

Radio

234

(1)

Statue

235

(1)

Sleeping on the Wing

235

(1)

Aix-en-Provence

236

(1)

Poem (All of a sudden all the world)

237

(1)

Joseph Cornell

237

(1)

Edwin's Hand

238

(1)

Cambridge

239

(1)

The Bores

240

(1)

Dialogues

240

(1)

Stag Club

241

(1)

Memories of Bill

242

(1)

Katy

242

(1)

Lisztiana

242

(1)

On a Mountain

243

(1)

Poem (And tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in Springfield, Massachusetts,)

244

(1)

Poem (Instant coffee with slightly sour cream)

244

(1)

Spring's First Day

245

(1)

Returning

246

(1)

246

(1)

To John Wieners

247

(1)

Four Little Elegies

248

(4)

Hunting Horns

252

(1)

In Memory of My Feelings

252

(5)

A Step Away from Them

257

(1)

Qu'est-ce que de nous!

258

(1)

A Raspberry Sweater

259

(1)

Lisztiana, Much Later

259

(1)

Digression on Number 1, 1948

260

(1)

[It seems far away and gentle now]

261

(1)

Why I Am Not a Painter

261

(1)

Military Cemetery

262

(1)

Aggression

263

(2)

Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's

265

(2)

John Button Birthday

267

(1)

Anxiety

268

(1)

Wind

269

(1)

Blue Territory

270

(1)

Poem (I will always love you)

271

(1)

Je voudrais voir

272

(1)

Captain Bada

273

(1)

Louise

273

(1)

Failures of Spring

274

(1)

To Hell with It

275

(2)

Two Dreams of Waking

277

(1)

A Young Poet

278

(1)

Song of Ending

279

(1)

Ode on Necrophilia

280

(1)

Ode to Joy

281

(1)

Poem (To be idiomatic in a vacuum,)

282

(1)

Ode on Lust

282

(1)

Ode to Willem de Kooning

283

(3)

Poem (I live above a dyke bar and I'm happy.)

286

(1)

To Edwin Denby

286

(1)

About Courbet

287

(3)

Students

290

(1)

Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)

290

(8)

Three Airs

298

(1)

Good Friday Noon

299

(1)

Ode (to Joseph LeSueur) on the Arrow That Flieth by Day

300

(1)

To Richard Miller

301

(1)

June 2, 1958

301

(1)

Ode on Causality

302

(1)

Fantasia (on Russian Verses) for Alfred Leslie

303

(2)

Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets

305

(1)

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island

306

(2)

Places for Oscar Salvador

308

(1)

Poem (Today the mail didn't come)

309

(1)

To Gottfried Benn

309

(1)

With Barbara Guest in Paris

310

(1)

Far from the Porte des Lilas and the Rue Pergolese

311

(1)

Heroic Sculpture

311

(1)

Love (To be lost)

312

(1)

Berdie

312

(1)

Two Russian Exiles: An Ode

313

(1)

Thanksgiving

314

(1)

[Melancholy breakfast]

315

(1)

Gregory Corso: Gasoline

315

(2)

The ''Unfinished``

317

(2)

Dream of Berlin

319

(1)

The Lay of the Romance of the Associations

320

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (It is your 86th birthday)

321

(1)

For Bob Rauschenberg

322

(1)

[The sad thing about life is]

323

(1)

Image of the Buddha Preaching

323

(1)

All That Gas

324

(1)

The Day Lady Died

325

(1)

Rhapsody

325

(2)

Song (Is it dirty)

327

(1)

At Joan's

327

(1)

Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul

328

(1)

Joe's Jacket

329

(2)

You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming

331

(1)

Poem (The fluorescent tubing burns like a bobby-soxer's ankles)

331

(1)

Saint

332

(1)

''L'Amour avait passe par la``

333

(1)

Poem (Hate is only one of many responses)

333

(1)

Poem (I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence is driving at)

334

(1)

Personal Poem

335

(1)

Post the Lake Poets Ballad

336

(1)

Naphtha

337

(1)

September 14, 1959 (Moon)

338

(1)

Variations on Pasternak's ''Mein Liebchen, Was Willst du Noch Mehr?``

339

(1)

Poem (Krushchev is coming on the right day!)

340

(1)

Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun)

341

(1)

In Favor of One's Time

341

(1)

To You

342

(1)

Les Luths

343

(1)

Leafing Through Florida

344

(1)

Dances Before the Wall

344

(1)

Poem (Now it is the 27th)

345

(1)

Poem (Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals)

346

(1)

Poem V (F) W

346

(1)

Crow Hill

347

(2)

Poem ''A la recherche d' Gertrude Stein``

349

(1)

Variations on the ``Tree of Heaven'' (In the Janis Gallery)

349

(1)

Poem (Light clarity avocado salad in the morning)

350

(1)

Hotel Transylvanie

350

(1)

Poem (Wouldn't it be funny)

351

(1)

Poem (So many echoes in my head)

352

(1)

Present

352

(1)

Poem (That's not a cross look it's a sign of life)

353

(1)

Sudden Snow

354

(1)

Avenue A

355

(1)

Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think

356

(1)

Derange sur un Pont de l'Adour

357

(1)

A Little Travel Diary

357

(1)

Beer for Breakfast

358

(1)

Hotel Particulier

359

(1)

Embarrassing Bill

359

(1)

Having a Coke with You

360

(1)

Song (I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab)

361

(1)

An Airplane Whistle (After Heine)

361

(1)

Trying to Figure Out What You Feel

361

(2)

Glazunoviana, or Memorial Day

363

(1)

Ode to Tanaquil Leclercq

363

(1)

Five Poems

364

(2)

Poem (Some days I feel that I exude a fine dust)

366

(1)

Cohasset

366

(1)

Poem (O sole mio, hot diggerty, nix ``I wather think I can'')

367

(1)

Song (Did you see me walking by the Buick Repairs?)

367

(1)

Ballad

367

(1)

Flag Day

368

(1)

How to Get There

369

(1)

Steps

370

(1)

Ave Maria

371

(1)

To Music of Paul Bowles

372

(1)

Those Who Are Dreaming, A Play About St. Paul

373

(2)

Tonight at the Versailles, or Another Card Another Cabaret

375

(1)

A Warm Day for December

375

(1)

Variations on Saturday

376

(3)

A Short History of Bill Berkson

379

(1)

Liebeslied

380

(1)

What Appears to Be Yours

380

(1)

The Mother of German Drama

381

(1)

As Planned

382

(1)

Poem (It was snowing and now)

382

(1)

Lines During Certain Pieces of Music

383

(1)

Fond Sonore

384

(1)

You at the Pump (History of North and South)

385

(1)

American

386

(1)

Cornkind

387

(1)

[The light comes on by itself]

388

(1)

Macaroni

388

(1)

For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson

389

(4)

Essay on Style

393

(1)

To Maxine

394

(1)

Who Is William Walton?

395

(1)

To Canada (For Washington's Birthday)

396

(1)

On a Birthday of Kenneth's

396

(1)

Poem in Two Parts

397

(1)

The Anthology of Lonely Days

398

(1)

Vincent and I Inaugurate a Movie Theatre

399

(1)

Vincent

400

(1)

Mary Desti's Ass

401

(1)

Vincent, (2)

402

(1)

At Kamin's Dance Bookshop

403

(1)

Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir

403

(1)

Three Poems

404

(1)

Early on Sunday

404

(1)

Poem (Twin spheres full of fur and noise)

405

(1)

St. Paul and All That

406

(1)

For a Dolphin

407

(1)

Drifts of a Thing That Bill Berkson Noticed

408

(1)

F.Y.I. (The Brasserie Goes to the Lake)

409

(1)

F.M.I. 6/25/61

410

(1)

F.O.I. (A Vision of Westminster Abbey)

411

(1)

Summer Breezes (F.Y.(M.)M.B.I.)

412

(1)

Muy Bien (F.Y.S.C.)

413

(1)

Bill's School of New York (F.I.R.)

414

(1)

Bill's Burnoose

415

(2)

A Chardin in Need of Cleaning

417

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday #158

418

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday #161

419

(1)

F. (Missive & Walk) I. #53

420

(1)

The Lunch Hour FYI

421

(1)

Causerie de A.F.

422

(1)

Favorite Painting in the Metropolitan

423

(1)

F.Y.I. (Prix de Beaute)

424

(1)

Madrid

425

(2)

Petit Poeme en Prose

427

(1)

Mozart Chemisier

428

(1)

Poem en Forme de Saw

428

(1)

Yesterday Down at the Canal

429

(1)

Weather near St. Bridget's Steeples

430

(1)

Polovtsoi

431

(1)

Let's Get Out

431

(1)

Seven Nine Seven

432

(1)

Memoir of Sergei O

433

(1)

Metaphysical Poem

434

(1)

Adventures in Living

435

(1)

For Bill Berkson (On Again Looking into Saturday Night)

436

(1)

Biotherm (For Bill Berkson)

436

(13)

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)

449

(1)

Poem (Dee Dum, dee dum, dum dum, dee da)

449

(1)

Clytemnestra

450

(1)

Poem (Signed ``The Seeing Eye'')

451

(1)

For David Schubert

451

(1)

Captains Courageous

452

(1)

Legend

453

(2)

Maundy Saturday

455

(1)

New Particles from the Sun

455

(2)

The Old Machinist

457

(1)

First Dances

458

(1)

Political Poem on a Last Line of Pasternak's

459

(1)

Rogers in Italy

460

(1)

Ballade Number 4

460

(2)

Two Tragic Poems

462

(1)

Galanta

463

(1)

Biographia Letteraria

464

(1)

Lines for the Fortune Cookies

465

(2)

The Sentimental Units

467

(1)

Answer to Voznesensky & Evtushenko

468

(1)

34 Mile Wind

469

(1)

Poem (At the top of the rung)

469

(1)

[Dear Jap,]

470

(1)

Again, John Keats, or the Pot of Basil

471

(1)

Poem (The Cambodian grass is crushed)

472

(1)

For Poulenc

472

(1)

Bathroom

473

(1)

On Rachmaninoff's Birthday & About Arshile Gorky

474

(1)

[The clouds go soft]

474

(1)

[The light presses down]

475

(1)

Walking

476

(1)

Poem (I to you and you to me the endless oceans of)

477

(1)

At the Bottom of the Dump There's Some Sort of Bugle

478

(1)

Chicago

479

(1)

Enemy Planes Approaching

479

(1)

Here in New York We Are Having a Lot of Trouble with the World's Fair

480

(1)

I Love the Way It Goes

481

(1)

Should We Legalize Abortion?

482

(1)

The Bird Cage Theatre

483

(1)

The Green Hornet

484

(1)

The Jade Madonna

484

(1)

The Shoe Shine Boy

485

(1)

Trireme

486

(2)

Fantasy

488

(1)

Cantata

489

(1)

Cheyenne

489

(1)

Historical Variations

490

(1)

Little Elegy for Antonio Machado

491

(82)

THE ESSAYS

[Notes on Second Avenue]

495

(3)

Personism: A Manifesto

498

(2)

[Statement for The New American Poetry]

500

(1)

About Zhivago and His Poems

501

(9)

[Statement for Paterson Society]

510

(2)

Larry Rivers: A Memoir

512

(7)

NOTES

Notes on the Poems

519

(39)

Notes on the Essays

558

(1)

INDEXES

Index of titles

559

(14)

Index of first lines

573

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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

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