Poems Retrieved

This volume completes the publication of all the poems Frank O'Hara wrote between 1950 and his tragic early death in 1966. "It's the Blue", a previously unknown verse satire, and a poem meditation on a painting by Philip Guston are included in this revised edition.

This volume completes the publication of all the poems Frank O'Hara write between 1950 and his tragic death in 1966. "O'Hara the quintessential Postmodernist . . . His work is a kind of watershed, a culmination of the Modernists' efforts to exploit the city, and a prototype of the poetry to come."-Neal Bowers