The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara

The museum’s dedication of a minigallery to O’Hara last fall attests to his role in celebrating Abstract Expressionism (he helped to curate MoMA’s influential Cold War–driven exhibition The New American Painting, of 1958, and wrote the first monograph on Jackson Pollock the following year) and in championing the movement’s second generation, his friends and contemporaries.

The poem’s precipitating visit to Spain was in fact a research trip for an exhibition he was organizing to open at MoMA that summer, New Spanish Painting and Sculpture. 1 His weekdays he spent among paintings, first at the front desk, then as a curator, at the Museum of Modern Art. Just as at home I never think of the NudeĪt a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo orĪ “poet among painters,” O’Hara could be found most nights in the late 1950s and ’60s at readings, exhibitions, studios, dinners, or the Cedar Tavern with the many contemporary painters he counted among his intimate friends and wider circle: Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, and Willem de Kooning, to name a few. But eventually a clue emerges of the poem’s very real recipient, whose thrall over Frank outpaces some impressive competition: and the fact that you move so beautifully more

OL2565183W Page_number_confidence 92.11 Pages 636 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20190301083609 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1445 Scandate 20190223140733 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog trent Scribe3_search_id 0116301751826 Tts_version 1.In April 1960, four days after returning from a trip to Spain, Frank O’Hara dashed off the poem “Having a Coke with You.” The open arms of the second person beckon anyone in we are at home in the delights of Frank’s quotidian world.

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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara