The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

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Pub. Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
A Short Chronology xiii
How Roses Get Black
3(1)
Gamin
3(1)
Madrigal for a Dead Cat Named Julia
4(1)
Oranges: 12 Pastorals
5(4)
A Prayer to Prospero
9(1)
Homage to R rose Selavy
10(1)
Melmoth the Wanderer
10(1)
Autobiographia Literaria
11(1)
The Drummer
12(1)
The Muse Considered as a Demon Lover
12(1)
Poem (At night Chinamen jump)
13(1)
Poem (The eager note on my door said ``Call me,)
14(1)
Today
15(1)
Concert Champetre
15(1)
An 18th Century Letter
16(1)
Memorial Day 1950
17(1)
V.R. Lang
18(1)
A Scene
19(1)
A Quiet Poem
20(1)
A Walk on Sunday Afternoon
20(1)
Les Etiquettes jaunes
21(1)
A Letter to Bunny
22(1)
A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead
23(1)
Poem (The flies are getting slower now)
24(1)
Poem (Wheewhee)
25(1)
The Spoils of Grafton
26(1)
The Clown
26(1)
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day
27(2)
Poem (God! love! sun! all dear and singular things!)
29(1)
Animals
30(1)
Morning
30(2)
The Three-Penny Opera
32(1)
A Note to John Ashbery
33(1)
A Note to Harold Fondren
34(1)
A Camera
34(1)
A Poem in Envy of Cavalcanti
35(1)
An Image of Leda
35(1)
The Poet in the Attic
36(1)
Early Mondrian
37(1)
Night Thoughts in Greenwich Village
38(1)
Poem (All the mirrors in the world)
39(1)
Poem (Although I am a half hour)
39(1)
Poem (If I knew exactly why the chestnut tree)
40(1)
Poem (Let's take a walk, you)
41(1)
Poem (The clouds ache bleakly)
42(1)
Poem (The ivy is trembling in the hammock)
42(1)
Poem (The stars are tighter)
43(1)
Song for Lotta
44(1)
The Argonauts
45(1)
The Lover
45(1)
The Young Christ
46(1)
Women
47(1)
The Critic
48(1)
Original Sin
48(1)
Poetry
49(1)
Tarquin
49(1)
Yet Another Fan
50(1)
A Homage
50(1)
A Poem about Russia
51(1)
A Proud Poem
52(1)
February
53(1)
A Rant
54(1)
Interior (With Jane)
55(1)
Renaissance
55(1)
A Postcard from John Ashbery
56(1)
Poem (Ivy invades the statue.)
57(1)
Drinking
57(1)
Smoking
58(1)
Panic Fear
58(1)
Boston
59(1)
A Pastoral Dialogue
60(1)
Poem (I ran through the snow like a young Czarevitch!)
60(1)
A Sonnet for Jane Freilicher
61(1)
The Arboretum
61(1)
A Terrestrial Cuckoo
62(1)
On Looking at La Grande Jatte, the Czar Wept Anew
63(1)
Ann Arbor Variations
64(3)
A Chinese Legend
67(1)
After Wyatt
68(1)
The Satyr
68(1)
The Tomb of Arnold Schoenberg
69(1)
Poet
69(1)
A Modern Soldier
70(1)
A Mexican Guitar
71(1)
Jane Awake
72(1)
1951
73(1)
Dido
74(1)
Brothers
75(1)
A City Winter
75(2)
Ashes on Saturday Afternoon
77(1)
Female Torso
78(1)
In Hospital
78(1)
Overlooking the River
79(1)
Poem for a Painter
80(1)
An Abortion
80(1)
Sunset
81(1)
Walking with Larry Rivers
82(1)
Funnies
82(1)
Washington Square
83(1)
Elegy (Ecstatic and in anguish over lost days)
83(1)
Elegy (Salt water. and faces dying)
84(1)
Commercial Variations
85(2)
Colloque Sentimental
87(1)
Portrait of Grace
87(1)
Jane at Twelve
88(1)
Jane Bathing
89(1)
Locarno
90(1)
Mountain Climbing
91(1)
Olive Garden
92(1)
The Next Bird to Australia
92(1)
Day and Night in 1952
93(2)
Poem (The distinguished)
95(1)
Beach Party
96(1)
Easter
96(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)
Like
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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