{"product_id":"selected-poems-9780307268150","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank OHara (19261966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton  Massachusetts  OHara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951 he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the citys artistic life. OHaras style exudes an insistent  seductive glamour; his mercurial poems  at once open-ended and startlingly immediate  radiate an insouciant confidence that has lost none of its freshness over the decades. OHara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery  Barbara Guest  Kenneth Koch  and James Schuyler  as well as experimental painters such as Willem de Kooning  Larry Rivers  and Jasper Johns. Their achievements are movingly celebrated in many of his poems  while at the same time he paid loving tribute to popular idols such as James Dean and Lana Turner:  Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up  This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of OHaras tragically foreshortened career  including his drama  and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts such as Personism  in which OHara succinctly summed up his overall approach to poetry: You just go on your nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652228702261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307268152","price":55.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307268150.jpg?v=1781850110","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-9780307268150","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}