Hi, Louise!

Stephen Burt

  • In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art by Russell Ferguson
    California, 160 pp, £24.50, October 1999, ISBN 0 520 22243 1
  • The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman
    Anchor, 448 pp, US $16.95, November 1999, ISBN 0 385 49533 1
  • Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters by Marjorie Perloff
    Chicago, 266 pp, £13.50, March 1998, ISBN 0 226 66059 1

Open Frank O’Hara’s Collected Poems at random, somewhere in the middle, and you may get what looks like a Post-It note to a friend, or versified notes on a Jackson Pollock painting, a James Dean movie or ‘the music of Adolphe Deutsch’. You may also get one of many enticing, informal, secretly-complex poems that sound like nobody else ever has:

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