Lunch poems
"Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lu…
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- Full title :Lunch poems / Frank O'Hara.
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"Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©1964
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):City Lights Books
- Place of Publication:San Francisco
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1964
The Physical Object
- Description:82 pages ; : 16 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0872860353, 9780872860353
- oclc:ocm05875260
- LC Classification:PN6101
- Dewey Decimal:811.54
Table of Contents
Music -- Alma -- On Rachmaninoff's Birthday -- Poem -- On the Way to the San Remo -- 2 Poems from the Ohara Monogatari -- A Step Away from Them -- Cambridge -- Poem -- Three Airs -- Image of the Buddha Preaching -- Song -- The Day Lady Died -- Poem -- Poem -- Naphtha -- Personal Poem -- Adieu to Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean-Paul -- Rhapsody -- Hotel particulier -- Cornkind -- How To Get There -- A Little Travel Diary -- Five Poems -- Ave Maria -- Pistachio Tree at Chateau Noir -- At Kamin's Dance Bookshop -- Steps -- Mary Desti's Ass -- St. Paul and All That -- Memoir of Sergei O -- Yesterday Down at the Canal -- Poem en forme de saw -- For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson -- Poem -- Galanta -- Fantasy.
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