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Frank O’Hara: an immediate and exploratory American poet
Poetry should be “between two persons instead of two pages.”
- Yesterday Down at the Canal
- You say that everything is very simple and interesting
- it makes me feel very wistful, like reading a great Russian novel does
- i am terribly bored
- sometimes it is like seeing a bad movie
- other days, more often, it’s like having an acute disease of the kidney
- god knows it has nothing to do with the heart
- nothing to do with people more interesting than myself
- yak yak
- that’s an amusing thought
- how can anyone be more amusing than oneself
- how can anyone fail to be
- can i borrow your forty-five
- i only need one bullet preferably silver
- if you can’t be interesting at least you can be a legend
- (but i hate all that crap)
- Chez Jane
- The white chocolate jar full of petals
- swills odds and ends around in a dizzying eye
- of four o’clocks now and to come. The tiger,
- marvellously striped and irritable, leaps
- on the table and without disturbing a hair
- of the flowers’ breathless attention, pisses
- into the pot, right down its delicate spout.
- A whisper of steam goes up from that porcelain
- urethra. “Saint-Saëns!” it seems to be whispering,
- curling unerringly around the furry nuts
- of the terrible puss, who is mentally flexing.
- Ah be with me always, spirit of noisy
- contemplation in the studio, the Garden
- of Zoos, the eternally fixed afternoons!
- There, while music scratches its scrofulous
- stomach, the brute beast emerges and stands,
- clear and careful, knowing always the exact peril
- at this moment caressing his fangs with
- a tongue given wholly to luxurious usages;
- which only a moment before dropped aspirin
- in this sunset of roses, and now throws a chair
- in the air to aggravate the truly menacing.
- Song (Did You See Me Walking by the Buick Repairs?)
- Did you see me walking by the Buick Repairs?
- I was thinking of you
- having a Coke in the heat it was your face
- I saw on the movie magazine, no it was Fabian’s
- I was thinking of you
- and down at the railroad tracks where the station
- has mysteriously disappeared
- I was thinking of you
- as the bus pulled away in the twilight
- I was thinking of you
- and right now
Frank O'Hara
Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) was an American poet and art critic, and considered the leading figure of the New York School, an informal arts and literature movement which stressed the avant-garde and surreal. As curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, O’Hara played a pivotal role in the success of the New York School, serving as confident and advocate for poets, dancers, playwrights, painters and other “students” of the School. More introspective than many of the poets in the New York School, O’Hara wrote poems that were at once immediate and exploratory, noting that poetry should be “between two persons instead of two pages.” His posthumous The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara was one of two books to win the 1972 National Book Award for Poetry. (Fellow New Yorker, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, Howard Moss also won that year’s prize for his Collected Poems.)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Frank O’Hara: an immediate and exploratory American poet
Poetry should be “between two persons instead of two pages.”
Frank O’Hara: an immediate and exploratory American poet
Poetry should be “between two persons instead of two pages.”
- Yesterday Down at the Canal
- You say that everything is very simple and interesting
- it makes me feel very wistful, like reading a great Russian novel does
- i am terribly bored
- sometimes it is like seeing a bad movie
- other days, more often, it’s like having an acute disease of the kidney
- god knows it has nothing to do with the heart
- nothing to do with people more interesting than myself
- yak yak
- that’s an amusing thought
- how can anyone be more amusing than oneself
- how can anyone fail to be
- can i borrow your forty-five
- i only need one bullet preferably silver
- if you can’t be interesting at least you can be a legend
- (but i hate all that crap)
- Chez Jane
- The white chocolate jar full of petals
- swills odds and ends around in a dizzying eye
- of four o’clocks now and to come. The tiger,
- marvellously striped and irritable, leaps
- on the table and without disturbing a hair
- of the flowers’ breathless attention, pisses
- into the pot, right down its delicate spout.
- A whisper of steam goes up from that porcelain
- urethra. “Saint-Saëns!” it seems to be whispering,
- curling unerringly around the furry nuts
- of the terrible puss, who is mentally flexing.
- Ah be with me always, spirit of noisy
- contemplation in the studio, the Garden
- of Zoos, the eternally fixed afternoons!
- There, while music scratches its scrofulous
- stomach, the brute beast emerges and stands,
- clear and careful, knowing always the exact peril
- at this moment caressing his fangs with
- a tongue given wholly to luxurious usages;
- which only a moment before dropped aspirin
- in this sunset of roses, and now throws a chair
- in the air to aggravate the truly menacing.
- Song (Did You See Me Walking by the Buick Repairs?)
- Did you see me walking by the Buick Repairs?
- I was thinking of you
- having a Coke in the heat it was your face
- I saw on the movie magazine, no it was Fabian’s
- I was thinking of you
- and down at the railroad tracks where the station
- has mysteriously disappeared
- I was thinking of you
- as the bus pulled away in the twilight
- I was thinking of you
- and right now
Frank O'Hara
Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) was an American poet and art critic, and considered the leading figure of the New York School, an informal arts and literature movement which stressed the avant-garde and surreal. As curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, O’Hara played a pivotal role in the success of the New York School, serving as confident and advocate for poets, dancers, playwrights, painters and other “students” of the School. More introspective than many of the poets in the New York School, O’Hara wrote poems that were at once immediate and exploratory, noting that poetry should be “between two persons instead of two pages.” His posthumous The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara was one of two books to win the 1972 National Book Award for Poetry. (Fellow New Yorker, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, Howard Moss also won that year’s prize for his Collected Poems.)
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