O'Hara, Frank

O'Hara, Frank

▪ American poet
born June 27, 1926, Baltimore
died July 25, 1966, Fire Island, N.Y., U.S.

      American poet who gathered images from an urban environment to represent personal experience.

      O'Hara was drawn to both poetry and the visual arts for much of his life. During the 1960s, as an assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, O'Hara sent his fine criticism of current painting and sculpture to such periodicals as Art News, and he wrote catalogs for exhibits that he arranged. Meanwhile, local theatres were producing many of his experimental one-act plays, including Try! Try! (1960), about a soldier's return to his wife and her new lover.

      O'Hara, however, considered himself primarily a poet. His pieces, which mark him as a member of the New York school of poets, are a mixture of quotations, gossip, phone numbers, commercials—any mote of experience that he found appealing. He related what was happening to him rather than trying to clarify experiences for the reader. The results vary from the merely idiosyncratic to the dynamic and humorous.

      O'Hara's first volume of poetry was A City Winter, and Other Poems (1952); The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1971) was published posthumously.

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