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Frank O'Hara (1926–1966)

Author of Lunch Poems

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Frank O'Hara 1926-1966 Poet Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore, MD and raised in Massachusetts. He served in the Navy and then studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan. From 1952 to 1966, O'Hara was on the staff at the Museum of Modern Art. He was a critic and a playwright and stayed active in the art scene. O'Hara published six books of poetry from 1952 until his death. Frank O'Hara died in 1966 when he was run down by a dune buggy on Fire Island. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen (Knopf, 1971), the first of several posthumous collections, shared the 1972 National Book Award for Poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Lunch Poems… (more)
Lunch Poems (Author) 895 copies, 12 reviews
Meditations in an Emergency 411 copies, 5 reviews
Selected Poems 261 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems 159 copies
Poems Retrieved 116 copies, 1 review
Jackson Pollock 91 copies, 2 reviews
In Memory Of My Feelings 60 copies, 2 reviews
Early Writing 36 copies
Second Avenue 19 copies
The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (Contributor) 1,442 copies, 10 reviews
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,213 copies, 9 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 728 copies, 3 reviews
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Contributor) 578 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 429 copies, 1 review
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (Contributor) 381 copies, 3 reviews
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (Contributor) 309 copies, 2 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 272 copies, 4 reviews
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Contributor) 231 copies, 2 reviews
The Art of Losing (Contributor) 190 copies, 20 reviews
Emergency Kit (Contributor, some editions) 107 copies, 1 review
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