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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Frank O'Hara"”.
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Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara defined himself, both as a man and a poet, as Eliot's antithesis. Eventually, O'Hara would create a modern urban poetry that repudiated Eliot's poetry and the attitudes it conveyed, a repudiation that culminates in O'Hara's Second Avenue, a modern urban epic that both emulates and is …
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Being aesthetic after the American midcentury: Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery
… the least philosophically-inclined of authors: Frank O’Hara’s famous description of lyric composition as ‘just go[ing] on your nerve’ remains emblematic of the poets’ apparently allergic resistance to formal philosophical analysis. Taking up three exemplary figures – Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, …
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In the Midst of the Spectacular: Performance, Media, and Criticism in Frank O’Hara
This thesis repositions Frank O’Hara as a writer whose sustained engagement with different media forms reveals a neglected chapter in the history of thinking about media. Scholars of O’Hara typically discuss his relationship to media in terms of poetry and painting, while those who do consider his …
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Looking for Right Now: Cruising in Gay New York
… of three queer New York writers: Walt Whitman, Frank O’Hara and David Wojnarowicz. Through this triptych formation I offer an account of the look as an optical instrument of desire that is intimately linked with visual culture. I begin with Walter Benjamin’s work on Baudelaire to consider the …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… visual art, from his New York School predecessor Frank O’Hara. “The Breeders’ Cup” addresses Édouard Manet’s 1865 painting <em>Olympia </em>through ekphrasis, and the painting of a prostitute becomes a patron saint of parody for postmodern poetics. The poem introduces lust as a metaphor for …