21. On "Thinking Of James Dean" Koch, and Schuyler. From City Poet The Life and Times of frank O’Hara.Copyright © 1993 by Brad Gooch. Return to frank O Hara. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/ohara/jamesdean.htm

On "Thinking of James Dean" Brad Gooch The subject O'Hara was fascinated with that fall was the death of James Dean, aged twenty-four, on September 30, 1955, in a crash in his Porsche Spyder near Paso Robles on his way to Salinas for a race. O'Hara responded by writing a number of elegies from October through the following April. "For James Dean," written the Wednesday after the crash, shows the influence of classical elegies, which the movie star's death had inspired O'Hara to read, including Milton's "Lycidas," Tennyson's "In Memoriam," and Shelley's "Mourn not for Adonais": For a young actor I am begging peace, gods. Alone in the empty streets of New York I am its dirty feet and head and he is dead. The next day he wrote an elegylater included as "Obit Dean, September 30, 1955 " in "Four Little Elegies"modeled on the format of Dean's newspaper obituary that simultaneously parodied a classical invocation to a goddessin this case Carole Lombard: "This is / James Dean, Carole Lombard. I hope / you will be good to him up there." The following weekend O'Hara accompanied Morris Golde, John Button, and Button's lover, the pianist Alvin Novak, to Golde's simple beach-washed angular wooden home atop a dunish hill on Water Island, a secluded community on Fire Island reachable only by motorboat or beach taxi. There O'Hara plunged more deeply into a poetry of grief and anxiety about death that he hung mostly on Dean's lyrically tragic demise. One afternoon he wrote a poem in the sand that he claimed to later remember and write down verbatim:

22. Ingenta: Article Summary -- Making Readers - The Frank OHara Way LAST last. mark article availability. Making readers – the FrankO Hara way Critical Quarterly October 2003, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 84 http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=pubinfobike://bpl/

23. The Beat Page - Frank O'Hara frank O Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and raised in Massachusetts. See also CityPoet The Life and Times of frank O Hara, by Brad Gooch (New York, 1993). http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/ohara.html

Chinamen Jump Call Me Homosexuality Other Writers: Richard Brautigan Charles Bukowski William S. Burroughs Neal Cassady Gregory Corso Robert Creeley Diane di Prima Robert Duncan William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg John Clellon Holmes LeRoi Jones Bob Kaufman Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Philip Lamantia Denise Levertov Michael McClure Peter Orlovsky Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Rexroth Gary Snyder Anne Waldman Lew Welch Philip Whalen William Carlos Williams PHOTO GALLERY Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and raised in Massachusetts. After service in the Navy he studied music at Harvard and the University of Michigan. In 1951 he moved to New York, where he was employed by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). "I can't even enjoy a blade of grass," he once wrote, "unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life." O'Hara was deeply involved in the New York art scene, particularly with the work of abstract expressionist painters such as Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. Between 1953 and 1955 he worked as editorial associate for Art News, for which his poet friends John Ashbery and James Schuyler also wrote. In 1955 he rejoined the staff of MOMA, where he was appointed assistant curator in 1960. O'Hara is best known for his I-do-this, I-do that poems, such as 'A Step Away From Them', 'Why I am Not a Painter', and 'The Day Lady Died' (an elegy for Billie Holliday, but some of his later longer poems, in particular 'In Memory of My Feelings' and 'Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)' are equally effective, and have proved influential on a host of younger poets.) Donald Allen edited his Collected Poems (New York, 1971; Manchester, 1991) and also a Selected Poems (New York, 1974). See also City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara, by Brad Gooch (New York, 1993).

24. The Lady Day Died By Frank O'Hara keybord to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing. 7/17/59.frank O Hara. ABRAXAS BRIGHT MOMENTS. Return to ABRAXAS Catalog. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4614/ohara.html

THE DAY LADY DIED It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille Day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get offthe 419 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets in Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bank and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard) doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiold, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres of Genet, but I don't, I stink with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came form to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it

25. Frank Castle - A Short Biography - Castle Fine Arts frank Castle frank Castle Biography; Gakutei Gakutei Print Gallery and Biography; oharaShoson (Koson) ohara Shoson (Koson) Print Gallery and Biography; Paul http://www.castlefinearts.com/fs_aboutfc.html

26. CROSSROADS | A Tribute To Frank O'Hara . . . The Dirty Poems of frank O Hara. —Elaine Equi. no. it improves constantlyyou don t refuse to breathe do you The Sanity of frank O Hara. —Thom Gunn. http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/tributes/ohara.html

A Tribute to Frank O'Hara Memorial Day 1950 I've always felt a special connection to Frank's "Memorial Day 1950." For one thing, I rescued it from oblivion. It wasn't in his papers when he died. Then I remembered I had once typed it out in a letter to Kenneth Koch when he was in France on a Fulbright. I had been trying to persuade Kenneth, who at that time was insisting that he and I were the only important young American poets, to include Frank in our mini-cenacle, and sent him Frank's poems in an effort to convince him. I was successful since Kenneth returned persuaded and kept the letter in his files. The poem's aggressively modernist tone may seem a little dated today, but at the time such figures as Max Ernst, Gertrude Stein, Boris Pasternak, Paul Klee, Auden and Rimbaud were far from being accepted cultural icons, at least in the world of Boston-Cambridge. (The year before, Frank and I had attended a concert that featured the premier of Schoenberg's String Trio. We both loved it, but I remember Frank getting into an argument with a young member of the Harvard music faculty who insisted that Schoenberg was literally crazy, and that Frank was too for liking him.) If his truculent modernist stance, through no fault of his, inevitably seems old-fashioned today, his political incorrectness, as illustrated in the passage about the sewage singing under his bright white toilet seat, was decades ahead of its time.

27. Jacket 10 - Lytle Shaw On Coterie Frank O Hara he attended UC.Berkeley, where he is completing a dissertation on frank O Hara. TheURL address of this page is http//jacketmagazine.com/10/shawon-ohara.html. http://jacketmagazine.com/10/shaw-on-ohara.html

C O N T E N T S H O M E P A G E T E N Lytle Shaw On Coterie: Frank O'Hara I N AN ESSAY published in 1978, John Ashbery introduces Frank O'Hara through an anecdote: at an opening for Edward Gorey's watercolors in 1949, while all three were still undergraduates at Harvard, Ashbery hears O'Hara "in a ridiculous voice that sounded to me like my own" suggest that Poulenc's was "greater than Tristan ." The "provocation," as Ashbery calls it, depends upon an educational regime at Harvard - a bias against contemporary composers - that makes mentioning Wagner and Poulenc in the same sentence impossible, let alone raising Poulenc above Wagner. Proper names within this regime get associated individually with descriptive and evaluative attributes - Wagner is the author of Tristan , Wagner is great - and collectively with what we might call a syntax that allows and forbids meaningful contact: sentences with Wagner cannot contain the substantive Poulenc. (Endnotes and photo credits are given at the foot of this page. Click on the note to be taken to it; likewise to return to the text.)

28. Jacket 10 - John Latta - Poem - Elogio Di Frank O Hara John Latta Elogio di frank O Hara. John Latta and Jacket magazine 2000 The URLaddress of this page is http//jacketmagazine.com/10/lattaon-ohara.html. http://jacketmagazine.com/10/latta-on-ohara.html

C O N T E N T S H O M E P A G E T E N John Latta Elogio di Frank O'Hara Now that I am up here in the sky I can see The mare di San Tommaso is a puddle of ink, A hierarchy of imperial blue tints, tempting The way order often is. No stranger's foot Weighs on my heart and the earth today, howsoever Cloud-begrudged and fickle, is turning Itself "to" the unbudging sun though we're slow To end our geocentric habits of three meddlesome centuries Of science leading us by the dirty hand and do not desist In saying the sun "rises," inexpert with the language That exists merely to placate our sensibilities, Troubled by the evacuations of art, how it leaves Adamant puddles in the landscape that go to work On the imaginations of stragglers like you and me. You got through it all through pure charm, Like a little grinning quark, knowing bravado To be as specious as any other absolute, dashing Naked into the night-stormy ocean, the only man awake On earth and nobody left up to play with. If we make our own suspicious amusements up and leave Too many things undone it's because life is a work- In-progress like any work is, always open and remaining so.

29. Links To Literature: Frank O'Hara Links to Literature frank O Hara. GENERAL RESOURCES. Academy of AmericanPoets frank O Hara. Photo, hyperlinked biography, selected http://www.linkstoliterature.com/ohara.htm

[Links to Literature: Frank O'Hara] HOME LITERATURE NEWSLETTERS SUBMIT-A-SITE BROKEN LINK ... CONTACT NEW! Think you know literature. Play one of our new literary trivia games. Famous Quotes, Famous First Lines, Famous Last Words, Great Works, and more. To start playing, please visit our Trivia Page GENERAL RESOURCES WORKS GENERAL RESOURCES Academy of American Poets: Frank O'Hara Photo, hyperlinked biography, selected bibliography, and related links. A Tribute to Frank O'Hara Portrait, overview of life and works, and a selection of poems. Primary and secondary bibliography, and descriptions of works. WORKS The Day Lady Died Digression on Number 1, 1948 Joseph Cornell Lines for Fortune Cookies ... Why I Am Not A Painter Need a second opinion? Try Search the Web. GoTo Half.com Audible.com Amazon ... eBay

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31. PAL: Frank O'Hara (1926-66) Present frank O Hara. PAL Perspectives in American Literature- A Research andReference Guide. URLhttp//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/ohara. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/ohara.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - Frank O'Hara (1926-66) Modern American Poetry: FO'H Primary Works Selected Bibliography MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: The Academy of American Poets: FO'H Top Primary Works A City in Winter, Meditations in an Emergency, Lunch Poems, 1964; Second Avenue, 1960; Odes, Love Poems, Jackson Pollock. NY: G. Braziller, 1959. ND237.P73 O4 Second Avenue. NY: Totem P, 1960. PS3529 .H28 S5 New Spanish painting and sculpture: Rafael Canogar and others. Garden City, NY: Distributed by Doubleday 1960. N7108 .N45 Robert Motherwell; with selections from the artist's writings by Frank O'Hara. NY: Distributed by Doubleday, 1965. ND237.M852 N4 Nakian. Exhibition, June 20-Sept. 5, 1966. NY: Doubleday, 1966. NB237.N4 A53 Meditations in an emergency. NY: Grove P, 1967, PS3529 .H28 M4 Odes. NY: Poet's P, 1969. PS3529.H28 O3 The collected poems of Frank O'Hara. Edited by Donald Allen. NY: Knopf, 1971. PS3529 H28

32. Frank O'Hara On The Painter Larry Rivers frank O Hara on the painter Larry Rivers. Document URL http//www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/oharaon-rivers.htmlLast modified Sunday, 23-Jun-1996 1752 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/ohara-on-rivers.html

Frank O'Hara on the painter Larry Rivers I have known Larry Rivers since 1950.... It was at a cocktail party we met, as one always meets people in New York, and waving at the crowd he said, "After all it's life we're interested in, not art." A couple of weeks later when I visited his studio for the first time...he said with no air of contradiction or remembrance, "After all, it's art we're interested in, not life." His main interest was obviously in the immediate situation. SEARCH POETRY HOME ENGLISH 88 READING LIST POETRY NEWS ... FILREIS HOME Document URL: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/ohara-on-rivers.html Last modified: Sunday, 23-Jun-1996 17:52:25 EDT

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H What is a cultivar?... [m] Horticultural Research Institute Foundation, Landscape Tree Cultivars Project Hardiness of landscape tree cultivars... [m] Horticultural Society of New York International conference on flower and fruit sterility (Papers)... [m] Horticultural Water Quality Alliance Water quality action manual for greenhouse and nursery operators - Clean and gre... [m] Hortipedia Corporation Inc. A-Z Tree Care: deciduous trees, evergreens and fruit trees... [m] Complete shrub care made easy: rosebushes, shrubs and hedges... [m] [m] Entretien des arbustes: arbrisseaux, haies et rosiers... [m] Horton, Alvin All about bulbs... [m] Gardening in containers... [m] Gardening in containers... [m] Horton, Alvin (eds.) Arranging cut flowers... [m] Horton, H. Mack (transl. by) Architecture in the Shoin style: Japanese feudal residences... [m] Horton, Judy Climbing garden... [m] Horts, G.L. Germination and initial growth of Kentucky Bluegrass in soluble salts... [m] Hortus Botanicus - Shanghai Catalogus plantarum cultarum [trad. de catal.]... [m] Hortus Botanicus Hangzhouensis Enumeratio plantarum cultarum...

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36. O'Hara frank O’HARA from PERSONISM A MANIFESTO. Everything pages. 9/3/59 frankO’Hara Personism A Manifesto from Yugen 7, copyright © 1961. http://www.poetspath.com/transmissions/messages/ohara.html

FRANK O’HARA from PERSONISM: A MANIFESTO Everything is in the poems, but at the risk of sounding like the poor wealthy man’s Allen Ginsberg I will write to you because I just heard that one of my fellow poets thinks that a poem of mine that can’t be got at one reading is because I was confused too. Now, come on. I don’t believe in god, so I don’t have to make elaborately sounded structures. I hate Vachel Lindsay, always have, I don’t even like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone’s chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don’t turn around and shout, "Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep." I’m not saying that I don’t have practically the most lofty ideas of anyone writing today, but what difference does that make? they’re just ideas. The only good thing about it is that when I get lofty enough I’ve stopped thinking and that’s when refreshment arrives. But how can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them. Improves them for what? for death? Why hurry them along? Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don’t give a damn whether eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don’t need to, if they don’t need poetry bully for them, I like the movies too. And all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American are better than the movies. As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it. Unless of course, you flatter yourself into thinking that what You’re experiencing is "yearning."

37. Ohara Autobiographica Literaria. frank O Hara. When I was a child. I played by myself ina corner. of the schoolyard. all alone. I hated dolls and I. hated games. Animals. http://www.ordinarydharma.org/articles/ohara.html

Manzanita Village Homepage Site Map Autobiographica Literaria Frank O'Hara When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I hated games. Animals were not friendly and birds all flew away. If anyone called for me I hid behind a tree and cried out, "I am an orphan!" Now here I am the center of all beauty writing these poems, Imagine!

38. Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) frank O Hara (19261966). Contributing Editor David Bergman. ClassroomIssues and Strategies. frank O Hara s works look so effortless http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ohara.html

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) Contributing Editor: David Bergman Classroom Issues and Strategies Frank O'Hara's works look so effortless, spontaneous, so stitched from his daily life, that students may forget just how hard it is to make things look easy. It is important to stress the ways the poems are drawn from his life, more than a laundry list of "I do this, I do that." For example, in "The Day Lady Died," the precise and banal details of his train schedule and the presents he is bringing set the stage for the memory of Billie Holiday, a memory that seems to exist out of time. It is Holiday who breaks through the hustle and bustle of his life and has captured through her arther voicesomething nearly eternal. Although she has "stopped breathing" in reality, in his memory of her it is the audience who is dead and she is the one most alive. O'Hara's connection to abstract expressionism is well established. It might be helpful to show the work of Mike Goldberg, Willem De Kooning, or Grace Hartigan. You might want to discuss the relationship between action painting and O'Hara's aesthetic, especially as developed in "Why I Am Not a Painter." O'Hara studied music, and for quite a time believed he would become a composer. He worked with Ned Rorem and was a friend of Virgil Thomson. (The Rorem/O'Hara collaboration is available on CD [PHCD 116].) Invite students to read the poems aloud. One discovers a subtle music in them. O'Hara diverges from modernist poets because of his emphasis on voice rather than on image. For all of his interest in painting, it is the immediacy of O'Hara's voice that is the most striking part of his poetry.

39. Frank O'Hara: Poems Selected By Mark Ford (Poet To Poet) Frank O'Hara frank O Hara Poems Selected by Mark Ford (Poet to Poet) frank O Hara.Author or Artist frank O Hara. Title frank O Hara Poems http://www.outdoorpursuitsonline.co.uk/Frank-OHara-Frank-OHara-Poems-Selec-915-7

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