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''And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine!''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Autobiographia Literaria (l. 13-16). . .
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''oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
they won't know the difference
and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ave Maria (l. 22-25). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 198...
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Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the s...
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ave Maria (l. 1-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983)...
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"Saint-Saens!" it seems to be whispering,
curling unerringly around the furry nuts
of the terrible puss, who is mentally flexing.
Ah be with me always, spirit of noisy
contemplatio...
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Chez Jane (l. 9-14). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Universit...
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''I call
to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 1-2). . .
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''trying to live in the terrible western world
here where to love at all's to be a politician, as to love a poem
is pretentious,''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 7-9). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed....
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''the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 37-39). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, e...
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''the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 34-36). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, e...
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I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet,...
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. The Day Lady Died (l. 14-19). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford ...
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''thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing''
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Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. The Day Lady Died (l. 26-29). . .
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