Lunch Poems

Frank O'Hara

• Title

  Lunch Poems

• Date 2014
• ISBN 0872866173
• Publisher San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers
• Description 86 p; 6.5 in; b/w ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  First published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, Lunch Poems, was edited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental The New American Poetry in 1960. These compelling and formally inventive poems—casually composed, for example, in his office at The Museum of Modern Art, in the street at lunchtime or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading—made O'Hara a dynamic figure of the "New York School" of poets.
  
  Edition Note: 50th Anniversary Edition
  Series Note: The Pocket Poets Series, No. 19

• Tags American poetry -- 20th century, MoMA Reading Room, New York, New York School