Song (Is it dirty) by Frank O’Hara

Frank (Francis Russell) O’Hara was born in Maryland on March 27, 1926. O’Hara’s early work was considered both provocative and provoking. In 1952, his first volume of poetry, A City Winter, and Other Poems, attracted favorable attention; his essays on painting and sculpture and his reviews for ArtNews were considered brilliant. O’Hara became one of the most distinguished members of the New York School of poets, which also included Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth… (more)

Frank (Francis Russell) O’Hara was born in Maryland on March 27, 1926. O’Hara’s early work was considered both provocative and provoking. In 1952, his first volume of poetry, A City Winter, and Other Poems, attracted favorable attention; his essays on painting and sculpture and his reviews for ArtNews were considered brilliant. O’Hara became one of the most distinguished members of the New York School of poets, which also included Ashbery, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch. O’Hara’s most original volumes of verse, Lunch Poems (City Lights Publishers, 1964) and Meditations in an Emergency (Grove Press, 1957), are impromptu lyrics, a jumble of witty talk, journalistic parodies, and surrealist imagery. On July 25, 1966, while vacationing on Fire Island, Frank O’Hara was killed in a sand buggy accident. (Source)

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