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...Peter Stoneley 2012 O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive Peter Stoneley Since the publication of Brad Gooch’s City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (1993), those who care to know about the poet’s personal life will know that O’Hara had...

...Terence Diggory Selected Poems , by O’Hara Frank , New edition . Edited by Ford Mark . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2008 . 265 pages. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry , by Epstein Andrew , New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 . 359...

... 57.1 Spring 2011 140 Review Baraka’s poem “Das Kapital”) and develops in successive stages through works by Frank O’Hara, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, William Gib- son, and nineties rap (52). Burroughs provides a crucial pivot in Clune’s lineage, his aleatoric compositions...

.... Auden and Ralph Ellison, as the behavioral mode of waiting in Elizabeth Bowen, and as the sound of war in Frank O’Hara (228). Following these various threads requires a wide range of approaches and critical frameworks, and it is with little fanfare but great dexterity that Seiler succeeds, demonstrating...

... Series of Younger Poets, had not declared a winner in 1954, which meant he was under extra pressure to name one in 1955, when Ashbery and his friend Frank O’Hara entered their manuscripts in the contest. Auden was disappointed by the finalists, and he wrote to Eugene Davidson at the Yale...

... lyrical style by poets as well known as Creeley and as hard to find as Edward Field can be viewed as “attempts to wrest authentic speech away from its more mediated versions within a surveillance culture” (66). Here, O’Hara’s poetic speech “provides an alternate register—insouciant, queer...

... : Penguin . Gooch Brad . 1993 . City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara . New York : Knopf . GrandOldToys.com . n.d. “ c. 1950 Alps, Mr. Robot The Mechanical Brain in Original Box .” https://www.grandoldtoys.com/toydb_Detail.php?id=1349 ( accessed July 1, 2019 ). Grobe...

... divine power ( Hartman and O’Hara 2004 , 196; Hartman and O’Hara 1954 ). Yet unlike Wordsworth’s Prelude , the spiritual life of the individual is not at issue here, at least until the ambiguous last line; rather, the presence of the Apollonian gaze is immediately at hand, in the curve of the breast...

... substantial personhood subtending all persons requires it to forgo the particularizing pleasure of aesthesis, to resist “for- mal mastery” (16) or even, in its most extreme formulations, to imagine a “poetry without poems.” For this reason, he argues, poets such as Yeats, Oppen, O’Hara and the many...

... in the acknowledg­ ments, strikes a similar note in Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode. In the final pages of this book, Charles Altieri, Daniel O’Hara, and Fredric Jameson (along with Hutcheon) are all enlisted to corroborate the current contention that “‘postmodernism’ is no longer a vital concept...

... ism, even if represented as naive and childlike, balances the corruption of modernization. In Gone with the Wind, Scarlet O’Hara’s modern ways exist alongside interracial affection based on racial hierarchy and the de­ humanization of African Americans. This provided a picture of the South...

... embraced by recent critics represents the literature that most Americans actually read at the time. The standard histories give us either Faulkner and Djuna Barnes or Steinbeck and James Farrell, but not Pearl Buck or John O’Hara. Returning to the decade’s fictional output, Hutner finds...

... study would have been Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara, Joseph Cornell, and John Cage. When one of his figures has received recent critical attention (such as Duncan and Creeley), Fredman makes a point of highlighting the things about these artists (Creeley’s theories of context and Duncan’s role...

... Cavell’s ordinary-language philosophy. While she focuses on her representative poets, her study also suggests that everyday-life theory can be relevant for understanding such diverse authors as Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Robert Creeley, James Schuyler, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan...

... include chapters on Frank O’Hara, John Wieners, Sam Shepard, Rochelle Owens, and Rosalyn Drexler (all names that, like Adrienne Kennedy, receive only passing mention or no acknowledgment at all in the Cambridge Companion ). A closing section on “Film and Beat Performance” covers cinematic works...

... be it”—to offset the topicality and provinciality of the newspaper and make a case for poetry’s more universal contribution. In an opposite move, Frank O’Hara’s “The Day Lady Died” takes a newspaper headline as its occasion but moves into a personal register wherein the lo- cale is the speaker’s...

... prosopopoeia The 1965 poem “Clepsydra” challenges some of the historical claims made about the late John Ashbery. Marjorie Perloff (1978 : 196) has cited Ashbery’s work and Frank O’Hara’s as evidence “that poetry in the second half of the twentieth century has finally turned its back on the legacy...

... been suc- cessfully carried out; at some point, one needs to see the body. Observa- tions about current disciplinary divides or examinations of poets’ laments (“poetry was declining / Painting advancing / we were complaining / it was ’50” mourns Frank O’Hara on Levy’s flyleaf) cannot quite...

...-century literature: The Waste Land (Eliot and Pound), Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins), Paul Bunyan (W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten), and Stones (Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers) are only some of the modern examples of the collaborations among writers, artists, composers...

..., as the motor vehicle accident that killed the poet Frank O’Hara and changed forever the self-image and group dynamics of the New York School of poets. 4. Vineland is in many ways anomalous—a retrospective novel, looking backward at the dystopian year 1984 and beyond that to the Sixties, whereas Lot 49...