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Poems retrieved / Frank O'Hara ; edited by Donald Allen ; with an introduction by Bill Berkson.

Title
Poems retrieved / Frank O'Hara ; edited by Donald Allen ; with an introduction by Bill Berkson.
Author
O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966
Publication
San Francisco : City Lights/Grey Fox, [2013]

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Additional Authors
Allen, Donald, 1912-2004
Description
xxiv, 254 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
Completely reformatted, featuring a new introduction by O'Hara expert and friend, poet and art critic Bill Berkson, and originally published under Donald Allen's Grey Fox Press imprint, Poems Retrieved is a substantial part of Frank O'Hara's oeuvre. The volume contains over two hundred pages of previously unpublished poetry discovered after the publication of his posthumous Collected Poems in 1971.
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Noir Cacadou, or The Fatal Music of War -- A Doppelgänger -- Poem (Green things are flowers too) -- Entombment -- A Slow Poem -- In Gratitude to Masters -- Poem (Suppose that grey tree, so nude) -- Poem (Poised and cheerful the) -- Song (I'm going to New York!) -- A Pathetic Note -- Poem (Just as I leave the theatre) -- Windows -- A Byzantine Place -- Lines Across the United States -- An Epilogue: To the Players of Try! Try! -- Poem (I can't wait for spring!) -- Poem (This vessel I've chosen) -- Voyage à Paris -- A Party Full of Friends -- A Curse -- A Portrait -- Mr. O'Hara's Sunday Morning Service -- The Soldier -- Parties -- [In the street of children the sun is cold] -- Form and Utterance -- Round Objects -- Sky Rhymes -- The Air and Sex of Early Day -- A Virtuoso -- A Classical Last Act -- The Ideal Bar -- The Painter's Son -- A Military Ball -- Poem ("Green oboes!" the parrot cries,) -- Serenade (Starlings are singing) -- Vernissage Jane Freilicher -- Shelter -- Schoenberg -- [It is a weak cold morning and I roll] -- Poem (The tough newspaper boy will wear) -- On a Friend's Being Insulted -- To Dick -- The Puritan -- A Romantic Poet to His Muse -- A Greek Girl at Riis Beach -- Poets up in the Air -- [I walk through the rain] -- Chanty -- Grace and George, An Eclogue -- It's the Blue -- Jacob Wrestling -- Poem (Rat's nest, at home bungling, up) -- A Darkened Palette -- Poem ("It's only me knocking on the door) -- The Beach in April -- A Wind at Night -- Prose for the Times -- [Tent-digging on the vacant lakes we appled] -- Maurice Ravel -- "Red" -- Serenade (This night this forest) -- A Sunday Supplement -- Kra Kra -- A Protestant Saint -- What Sledgehammer? or W. C. Williams's Been Attacked! -- Latinus -- The War -- The Builders -- [With the minute intentions of a boa heroic constrictor] -- Changing Your Ways -- Study of Women on the Beach 2 -- Poem (The rich cubicle's enclosure) -- August Afternoon, A Collage -- [The azure waves grumble and languish] -- [Fish smells in the hallway] -- Poem About Jane -- [Rooftops blocks away from me] -- A Birthday -- [Of all community of mind and heart] -- A Wreath for John Wheelwright -- [See the tents and the tanks and the trees of March!] -- Intermezzo -- [My country, leafy and blue with infinite breaths,] -- Clouds -- Causerie de Gaspé Peninsula -- St. Simeon -- Light Cavalry -- Addict-Love -- [En route to the burial in Long Island] -- Perfumes -- [Lace at your breast] -- Joseph -- Spleen -- Forest Divers -- The Weekend -- The Lights Over the Door -- Bridlepath -- Indian Diary -- "Light Conversation" -- Southern Villages, A Sestina -- Green Words, A Sestina -- Tschaikovskiana -- Palisades -- Bill's Body Shop -- A Little on His Recentness -- [There's such an I love you!] -- Poem (Water flow strongly O clouds) -- Dear Bobby -- To Bobby -- [So the spirit of music, the cascades!] -- Sonnet (O at last the towers!) -- [A face over a book] -- [Into the valley they go] -- [She hefted her leg onto the table and] -- On a Back Issue of Accent -- The Last Day of the Zoo -- To the Meadow -- Benjamin Franklin, or Isadora Duncan -- Augustus -- Poem (The paralysis of power and ease) -- The Mike Goldberg Variations -- Room -- [Dumb urns in syncamore temples] -- Lexington Avenue, An Eclogue -- [In the pearly green light] -- Poem (Here we are again together) -- [Pussywillows! Oh you're still here,] -- Movie Cantata -- [O resplendent green sea! I slowly pierce] -- [Five sobs lined up on the doorstep] -- Epigram for Joe -- Ode (I don't eat wheat) -- Jackie (After John Gower) -- [The brittle moment comes] -- [On the world's first evening] -- F♯ -- [Now It Seems Far Away and Gentle] -- Corresponding Foreignly -- Song (J'arrive au casserole at je casse une croûte) -- Bagatelle, or The Importance of Being Larry and Frank -- Pitcher -- Collected Proses, An Answer -- Une Journée de Juillet -- [Dusk. Dawn. The land. An albatross thinks of Spain.] -- Attacca -- Chopiniana -- [She, has she bathed in sound] -- [It is 1:55 in Cambridge, pale and spring cool,] -- To John Ashbery on Szymanowski's Birthday -- Poem (Flower! you are like synthetic feelings,) -- Un Chant Contre Paroles -- [And leaving in a great smoky fury] -- [Three Parodies] -- Episode -- The Stars -- Springtemps -- To Ned -- Platinum, Watching TV, Etc. -- [There's nothing more beautiful] -- [Have you ever wanted] -- Fou-rire -- Two Poems and a Half -- Callas and a Photograph of Gregory Corso -- To Violet Lang -- Poem (I could die) -- University Place -- [It is 4:19 in Pennsylvania Station] -- Maria Kurenko (Rachmaninoff Sings) -- [Why is David Randolph such a jerk] -- Kein Traum -- [On the vast highway] -- Poem ("We'll probably pay for it in August" the radio says) -- Poem (You do not always seem to be able to decide) -- Old Copies of Life Magazine -- "Chez William Kramps" -- Young Girl in Pursuit of Lorca -- [How wonderful it is that the Park Avenue Viaduct is being rehabilitated] -- A Trip to the Zoo -- Dear Vincent, -- [The fondest dream of] -- What Happened to "The Elephant Is at the Door" -- After a Meeting of The 2nd Coming -- Poem During Poulenc's Gloria -- The Trout Quintet -- F.Y.I. #371 (The Nun) -- F.Y.I. #371a (Haiku Day for the Nuns) -- F.Y.I. #371b (Parallel Forces, Excerpted) -- Le Domaine Musical -- [Like a barbershop that's closed on Saturday, me heart] -- Off the Kerb & After Emily Dickinson -- Shooting the Shit Again -- [How poecile and endearing is the Porch] -- Conglomerations in the Snow of Christmas Eve 1961 -- Un Homme Respectueux -- Le Boeuf sur le Toit -- My Day -- [I will always remember] -- Poem (Hoopla! yah yah yah) -- Poem (It's faster if you late but may never occur) -- To Lotte Lenya -- Lawrence -- Song (I ate out your heart) -- Pedantry -- Poem (In that red) -- [What strange cataract the peculiar] -- [The ancient ache, quick false move] -- Poem (lost lost) -- [I know that you try even harder than I] -- [Not to confirm dolors with a wild laugh] -- [Long as the street becomes] -- [Just as I am not sure where everything is going] -- [Why are there flies on the floor].
ISBN
  • 9780872865976 (paperback)
  • 0872865975 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2013003673
OCLC
  • 812258400
  • SCSB-11972311
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library