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Frank OHara (192666) composed poems any time, any place, collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For OHara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to experience that makes OHara an indispensable poet of the imaginative experience of the modern city. Reviewing this new selection in the Guardian, Charles Bainbridge Frank OHara is a wonderful poet funny, moving, chatty, engaging, enthusiastic, risktaking, elegiac, supremely urban and anything that encourages people to read him is a good thing. His poems have a disarming intimacy, a kind spontaneous enthusiasm and his work proves, with tremendous elan and energy, that you dont have to adopt a solemn tone in order to write poetry of seriousness and purpose. As OHara himself says of the nature of writing in the brilliantly comic A Manifesto: You just go on your nerve. If someones chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you dont turn around and shout, Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.
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Frank OHara (192666) composed poems any time, any place, collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For OHara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to experience that makes OHara an indispensable poet of the imaginative experience of the modern city. Reviewing this new selection in the Guardian, Charles Bainbridge Frank OHara is a wonderful poet funny, moving, chatty, engaging, enthusiastic, risktaking, elegiac, supremely urban and anything that encourages people to read him is a good thing. His poems have a disarming intimacy, a kind spontaneous enthusiasm and his work proves, with tremendous elan and energy, that you dont have to adopt a solemn tone in order to write poetry of seriousness and purpose. As OHara himself says of the nature of writing in the brilliantly comic A Manifesto: You just go on your nerve. If someones chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you dont turn around and shout, Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.
