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Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara 1926–66, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1950), Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A., 1951). His poetry is spontaneous, vernacular, witty, personal, and very much of its time and place—New York City, 1951–66. Closely associated with many of the painters of his time, O'Hara was a founder of the Poet's Theatre and later the center of the New York school of poets (consisting of himself, John Ashbery , Kenneth Koch , and James Schuyler). His writings include Collected Poems (1971), Early Writing (1977), Poems Retrieved (1977), and Selected Poems (2008).
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"Frank O'Hara." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Frank O'Hara." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-OHara-Fr.html "Frank O'Hara." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-OHara-Fr.html |
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O'Hara, Frank
O'Hara, Frank (1926–66),poet and art critic whose poetry, published in A City Winter (1952), Meditations in an Emergency (1957), Second Avenue (1960), Odes (1960), Lunch Poems (1964), and Selected Poems (1973, National Book Award), is marked by an extremely autobiographical relation to his New York environment and an immediacy that John Ashbery compared to the painting of Jackson Pollock (about whom O'Hara wrote a book‐length catalogue, 1959), for “Like Pollock, O'Hara demonstrates that the act of communication and the finished creation are the same.” Art Chronicles (1975) collects his criticism; Standing Still and Walking in New York (1975) is a gathering of essays and notes, followed by Early Writing (1977).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "O'Hara, Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "O'Hara, Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-OHaraFrank.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "O'Hara, Frank." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-OHaraFrank.html |
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O'Hara, Frank
O'Hara, Frank. See LESLIE.
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IAN CHILVERS. "O'Hara, Frank." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "O'Hara, Frank." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-OHaraFrank.html IAN CHILVERS. "O'Hara, Frank." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-OHaraFrank.html |
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