. At this point O'Hara began adapting the processes of surrealism to the conception of poetic form founded on the idea that the poem is an enactment of the actuality of perception and the realization of thinking. but tongues in ears and no more drums but ears to thighs In response to O'Hara's 'Ode to Joy' (1957), Smith writes, 'This poem strikes . It also engages the process of the painters in that, like the "Odes," it relates information spatially, not always linearly; it uses indentations and internal margins to specify different voices inside the poem. In "Easter" the images are fully nonreferential, or referential to their own reality alone: "The razzle dazzle maggots are summary / tattooing my simplicity on the pitiable." Last week, Steve Roggenbuck's new poetry cooperative Boost House posted the newest and, possibly, most unexpected Drake mash-up the internet has ever seen. When he wrote them, it was another dawning in American poetry and he one of the chief instigators, as he knew himself in his "Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's," when he wrote: "tonight I feel energetic because I'm sort of the bugle, / like waking people up. Ode To Joy Analysis. Frank O'Hara was part of the New York School of poets and was engaged in other artistic pursuits. When the images expand out, however, and a narrative occurs, as in "A Terrestrial Cuckoo" from this same time, the results are delightfully comic: in our canoe of war-surplus gondola parts[. This poem has a certain musicality about it with the way in which it is read. Sad news for readers of Frank O'Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O'Hara's life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O'Hara himself. Hilton Kramer was particularly critical of O'Hara's book Jackson Pollock (1959), claiming that the excessive praise and poetic writing spoiled the discussion of the paintings. A meditative poem such as "Sleeping on the Wing" from 1955 is a further advance and indication the poet's personality has fully emerged; specifically, that he is aware of the precious advantage, indeed the great comfort, of undisguised human "singularity," which he knows to be "all that you have made your own." The eager note on my door said "Call me, call when you get in!" so I quickly threw. Amidst all, the poet has been selected to bear like Prometheus "the gift of fire" to a "foreign land," a "temporary place of light, the land of air." Brad Gooch's biography, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (1993), makes it possible to trace the biographical, cultural, and literary information in the poems. Koch also suggests the chief persona of the poem is "a sort of Whitmanian I," though this is hardly discoverable. O'Hara published only two book reviews: one of poetry collections by friends Chester Kallman, Ashbery, and Edwin Denby; the other of John Rechy's City of Night, 1963. This book introduces O'Hara as a New York poet. He performed his administrative and curatorial duties surrounded by ceaseless conversation about art, poetry, music, and dance. Frank O'Hara - St. Paul and All That. The Abstract Expressionist painters in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s used the title, but the poets borrowed it. t a stten hogy rleheljenek nagy vrosokra hol minden let The largest collection of O'Hara's papers is at Harvard University. Cries. and the hairs dry out that summon anxious declaration of the organs and the hermit always wanting to be lone is lone at last It begins with memories first of Baltimore (O'Hara writes of his affinity for the magnolias and tulip trees mentioned in the poem in autobiographical fragments published in Standing Still and Walking in New York, 1975), then of Grafton, where aesthetic as well as sexual awakening occurred:", " by. During his lifetime O'Hara was known as "a poet among painters," part of a group of such poets who seemed to find their inspiration and support from the painters they chose to associate with, writing more art reviews and commentary than literary opinion. I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton, " ." Dashing the poems off at odd momentsin his office at The Museum of Modern Art, in the street at lunch time or even in a room full of peoplehe would then put them away in drawers and cartons and half forget them. A summer stint in a hospital, where poetry is necessary medicine. also aimed at undoing the 'self-regulation' of the traditional subject. Ashbery writes in his introduction to the 586-page The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1971), patiently gathered and carefully edited by Allen: "That The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara should turn out to be a volume of the present dimension will surprise those who knew him, and would have surprised Frank even more. That's what his parents told him, and presumably that was the date he always celebrated as his birthday. . Interestingly, despite all the appearances of a prolonged, considered meditation, the poem was actually composed with great rapidity, increasingly typical for O'Hara, a sign perhaps of the confidence, embodied by Li Po, of the poet come into his own. Poem after poem is of a high order of achievement--"Rhapsody," "Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul," "Joe's Jacket," "You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming," and "Personal Poem." which wants us to remain for cocktails in a bar and after dinner "Ode on Causality," the first poem in the book and the poem in memory of Pollock, begins with the line, "There is the sense of neurotic coherence." From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my. He lives with his brother. as evening signals nudities unknown to ancestors imaginations He was the subject of portraits by many of his artist friendsan indication not only of his association with painters but also of the esteem in which the artists held him. Frank O'Hara Salute to the French Negro Poet, Aim Csaire i. introDuction In the opening lines of "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets" (1958), midcentury American poet Frank O'Hara beckons: "From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, I call/to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence" (1-2). Themes of "the self," varieties of feelings . The poems at times can be correctly read as intense personal statements, not just sleight-of-hand performances. Perloff calls it O'Hara's "most Byzantine and difficult poem," while even Ashbery in his introduction to the Collected Poems speaks of "the obfuscation that makes reading 'Second Avenue' such a difficult pleasure." and the streets will be filled with racing forms. The open arms of the second person beckon anyone in; we are at home in the delights of Frank's quotidian world. Anyhow . Among the poems of this early period, "Oranges" stands out. It tends to flow from one line to the next, placing . There are repeated reminders of the "darkness" at the center of life, but even as that darkness occurs it appears "a glistening / blackness in the center / if you seek it . Like Stevens, in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," O'Hara is a poet of the city who concentrates on enacting the processes of the mind as it contacts reality. This is not mentioned, yet perhaps O'Hara is signaling such an awareness by deliberately confining his admiration for Vincent to aesthetics . And that was that." Ned Rorem also wrote the song "For Poulenc", which uses the words from O'Hara's poem "For Poulenc". After each movement is presented again the sound gets . Life Frank O'Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O'Hara and Katherine (ne Broderick) was born on March 27, 1926, at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. The piece begins with a sense of stress and then starts by "reviewing" themes from the first three movements and tries to find his perfect melody in each one (41:03). . The poem is neither celebratory nor congratulatory (it is not, despite the title, a birthday poem for the painter but was written during the three months after his birthday). Frank O'Hara. When he did give them to me I couldn't induce him to arrange them in their proper sequence nor give me a title. There is not one drop of silliness or playful avoidance, as he continues: "for if there is fortuity it's in the love we bear each other's differences / in race." On Frank O'Hara, 'Second Avenue'. They included music, dance, and Expressionist painting. Most readers, however, have found difficulty with it. In the years after his intense, early relationship with O'Hara, Warren settled in Canada and Angel Nafis is paying attention. This is the most requested piece of music on the BBC Radio show, Desert Island Discs, which has been broadcast since 1942. The title of the exhibition was changed when Donald Allen used it as the title of his anthology The New American Poetry. . Frank liked the arrangement and my 'tentative' title. No more dying, Mindennk meglesz s tbb nem lesz hall "Having a Coke with You. Kisses she gave us and grapevines, A friend, proven in death. While surely not limited to sexual ambiguity, the language of the poems is ripe with in-talk of the 1960s; these qualities are indeed dominant in O'Hara's poems from the start. . An informal conversation between poets John Ashbery and Ron Padgett, remembering the life of Frank OHara. coffee) with Frank and Joe [O'Hara's roommate Joe LeSueur] at 326 East 49th Street, and the talk turned to Frank's unquenchable inspiration, in a teasing way on my part and Joe's. In the opening scene of Ode to Joy, a definition flashes on the screen: "Cataplexy is a neurological disorder that causes sudden attacks of muscle weakness." The definition continues on the next screen: "It is triggered by strong emotions such as anger, surprise and fear. The poem includes details about O'Hara's life in Baltimore, his trip to the "first movie," observations about "trysts," adventures in the South Seas during World War II, a statement about his first homosexual experience in a hay barn, and his life in New York at the "Five Spot" and around the city. He hastened the development of an art form hitherto little practiced in English (The Waste Land [1922], for example, is seldom designated as authored by both Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot) that was to become popular in the later 1960s and 1970s among younger poetsthe collaboration: O'Hara wrote poems with Ashbery, Koch, and Berkson; created "translations" from the French; produced a series of lithographs with Rivers, collages with Goldberg, comic strips with Joe Brainard, "Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" with composer Ned Rorem, and a movie with painter Alfred Leslie. On occasional visits to New York, he met Koch and Schuyler, as well as the painters who were likewise to be so much a part of his life, notably Larry Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock. . These papers were written primarily by students and . These images are, in the words of the poem, "diced essences"--sharply cut and full of chance. As the painter Alex Katz remarked, "Frank's business was being an active intellectual." The year 1959 was probably O'Hara's best, when one of his most famous poems, "The Day Lady Died," was written. On Ted Berrigans exuberant and idiosyncratic prose. Lotions. LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. s tollprna tollszkodik a lehanyatl-monolit alatt O'Hara wrote to Allen: "I've been going on with a thing I started to be a little birthday poem for B[ill] B[erkson] and then it went along a little and then I remembered that was how Mike's Ode ["Ode to Michael Goldberg"] got done so I kept on and I am still going day by day (middle of 8th page this morning). "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara is in the public domain. One need only compare the "Poem" beginning "Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals"--the same catalogue of disparate objects--to see how, when the personality takes over, a true, more shareable lyricism flowers. This ode is actually one of O'Hara's most directly political poems, mounting almost to a rhetoric of defiance: "blood! O'Hara incorporated Surrealistic and Dadaistic techniques within a colloquial speech and the flexible syntax of an engaging and democratic postmodernism. Penned by Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1808, it was the latter version that formed the basis for Beethoven's famous musical . Two other poems written at Harvard--the "Poems," beginning "At night Chinamen jump" and "The eager note on my door"--although among his earliest and having the same daring imagery as the surrealist poems, are exceptional as well for their narrative and dramatic poise. Manuscripts and letters in the Bill Berkson papers, as well as O'Hara's letters and manuscripts to Donald Allen, are in the Literary Archives, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs; small collections are at the Museum of Modern Art and Special Collections, Syracuse University. He did not cultivate academic alliances or solicit editors and publishers. . . Summary. Frank O'Hara lived in New York City . O the Polish . It is a voice of majesty, announcing a large theme. " Too different.What the For breakups, heartache, and unrequited love. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website. There is also the mock-heroic "To the Film Industry in Crisis," addressed "to you, / glorious Silver Screen, tragic Technicolor, amorous Cinemascope, / stretching Vistavision and startling Stereophonic Sound, with all / your heavenly dimensions and rever berations and iconoclasms!" Frank O'Hara 1926-1966 (Full name Francis Russell O'Hara) American poet, essayist, playwright, and art critic. . The collection of his poems by Allen and the arrangement of them in chronological order make it possible to discuss O'Hara's work in the order of its development; however, the contents of the first edition published during his lifetime are not preserved. a forg letbe mit nmagnak rkl vlaszt mikor oly presget jelez az este milyet kpzelni se tudtak Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/ Homosexuality/ Topography by Hazel Smith Liverpool University Press, 2000, 230 pages 45.00 hardback ISBN -85323-994- . Recorded at the Asian American Literature Festival in DC, Danez and Franny get a glimpse inside the pages and brain of wonderful poet and human Yanyi. I don't know anything about what it is or will be but am enjoying trying to keep going and seem to have been able to keep it 'open' and so there are lots of possibilities, air and such." The Abstract Expressionist painters in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s used the title, but the poets borrowed it. As Terence Diggory has demonstrated, Hartigan did twelve paintings for twelve O'Hara poems in the fall of 1952, and by so doing redefined her relationship to Abstract Expressionism and proposed a mode of "collaboration as a dialogue of multiple selves" between poets and painters that influenced poets and painters alike. Edwin Denby made his name as a dance critic, but his poetry was a pivotal influence on the writers and artists of the New York School. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition in the U.S., we discuss drinking poems over a few cocktails. It . He has learned lessons from Rivers, who in a painting like The Wall (1957) or The Accident (1957) spreads derivative images--like O'Hara drawing up blocks of memories from his life--over the field of the canvas and attempts a narrative guided by spatial relationships of the images and not a linear, causal argument. The "Ode to Michael Goldberg" should answer any charges that O'Hara cannot sustain a long poem. . hogy a szerelem ljen, Szdt lgbe mennek a hzak ahogy a szerelem is so the old man can sit on it and drink beer. Robert J. Bertholf, State University of New York at Buffalo. a few tangerines into my overnight bag, straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and. like the ways of gods with humans in the innocent combination of light A series of twelve prose poems (originally nineteen) written while he was home from Harvard during the summer of 1949, they are less the "pastorals" of their subtitle than a decidedly anti-Arcadian surrealistic parody beginning: "Black crows in the burnt mauve grass, as intimate as rotting rice, snot on a white linen field." His own art criticism, the major portion of which has been collected as Art Chronicles 1954-1966 (1975), helped to encourage the painters he liked best and maintain the public awareness of them, although in itself it is nowhere as brilliant as, for example, Rainer Maria Rilke's writings on Auguste Rodin or Charles Baudelaire's on the Salon of 1846. Two subsequent volumes prepared by Allen, one including O'Hara's earliest poems, mostly from notebooks and unpublished manuscripts among his papers and the other poems overlooked or unavailable at the time of his compilation of the complete poems, supplement the Collected Poems." over an insatiable sexual appetite The work behind Frank OHaras seemingly light Lunch Poems, now 50 years old. It's Frank O'Hara's birthday!!! Artists and their creations continue to decorate the poems as comfortably as they do a sunken living room. By Dan Chiasson. Winter Sale: 65% OFF 06 d: 22 h: 20 m: 12 s. View offer. He was an active and articulate spokesman for the new painting inside the major collecting museum in New York. The poet is immersed in his mode, his monde. His articulate intelligence made new proposals for poetic form possible in American poetry. A glass of ice. Over 60 guests have chosen this tune. More screw Cupid than Be mine.. It is based on a novel by the same name. Following his four years in Cambridge, O'Hara went to the University of Michigan on the advice of John Ciardi, his creative-writing teacher at Harvard, to compete in the Hopwood Awards, winning an award in writing for his manuscript "A Byzantine Place" and his verse play Try! The poem walks the reader through various scenes in New York City and alludes to a wide variety of places and people. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life. A young girl in the poem indicates that Pollock is not in his grave but in the woods, that he and his art are part of the process of death and rebirth, conceiving and reconceiving artistic forms. Chapter Two discusses the consequences of plurality of meaning for the self and for a political position. Learn New. Perceiving reality and attempting to remodel it in poetic form, he is perceiving and thinking spatially in blocks of information, both personal and referential, as a way to demonstrate that the acts of poetry are fully engaged in the activities of loving people, interacting with historical as well as contemporary events. Ode to Joy fails to live up to its title by attempting to wring comic mileage from a medical condition that sufferers probably don't find very funny. Summary of The Day Lady Died. The lyrical/narrative "I," the "I" with verve and personality, the distinctive O'Hara persona, the "I" of what he himself called his "I do this I do that" poems, makes its appearance as early as "Music," written in 1954. . s kls hsg prseli ssze a hsgutl Puritnt . An audio recording of "The Airport" from "Four Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" has been provided below. It was written in the spring of 1953 but not published in book form until 1960. They talk bringing their " . In the poem O'Hara demonstrates the process of assuming and then rejecting many possibilities of self-definition. ottmaradjunk egy brban ebd utn s enged lni vele ], " . Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. . and the imagination itself will stagger like a tired paramour of ivory Ironies and apparent contradictions abound: "you pull a pretty ring out of the pineapple [a grenade] / and blow yourself up"; everything is simultaneously "all right" and "difficult"; "wit" and "austerity" are shared; we fall sobbing to the floor with both "joy" and "freezing." Second Avenue: Poems by Frank O'Hara (1960) Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (1964) The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by John Ashbery and Donald Allen (1995) Meditations in an Emergency: Poems by Frank O'Hara (1957) Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara, edited by Mark Ford (2008) Writings on Art: Jackson Pollock by Frank O'Hara (1959 . The process of language achieving articulation through the body and then collecting itself in a web of multiple associations finally becomes the subject of the poem. Need a transcript of this episode? Ecstasy was given to the worm. capable of bursting / into flame or merely / gleaming profoundly." . "Ode to Joy" by Frank O'Hara . Died. He was a member of the New York School of poetry. This includes providing, analysing and enhancing site functionality and usage, enabling social features, and . or being sick to my stomach . . fenntarthat egytt az idvel mely gy akarja hogy koktlra Multu Konuk Blasing uses models from Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida in an attempt to unlock the poem. by Peter Schjeldahl. Request a transcript here. After service aboard the destroyer USS Nicholas in the South Pacific during World War II, he entered Harvard (Edward Gorey was his roommate), first majoring in music but changing to English and deciding to be a writer. . . In "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday," beginning "Quick! O'Hara gives an account of the series in his more justly famous "Why I Am Not a Painter," written in 1956:". " Time for some beautiful lines and absolutely crazy formatting..Happy Friday - ah thank you Frank, and all the other people out there peopling wonderful to kiss you, wonderful to be alone, wonderful to love you, wonderful to depart - I am alive with you - for you - from you. He says, "all I want is a room up there . Oil on canvas. From the beginning O'Hara's poetry was engaged with the worlds of music, dance, and painting. Or where the images are consistent, added to with like elements, as in "Romanze, or the Music Students," beginning:", --almost like an animated cartoon--this is the cleverness that makes O'Hara most appealing. John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch and I, being poets, divided our time between the literary bar, the San Remo, and the artists' bar, the Cedar Tavern. The allusion to The Rite of Spring is obvious enough. He lived caught between sweetness and poverty, between longing for love and being rejected in love, but also attempting to keep "the poem 'open'" in the "extraordinary liberty" of the daily enterprise." It was autumn. . Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. These are all poems written when O'Hara was most at home in his world and at the full strength of his style. for our symbol well acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father . O'Hara was at the forefront of the rise of the American avant-garde, helping elevate Abstract Expressionism, and . --but then held suspended, as up a sleeve, until the end, and released when most appropriate, in the natural order of events:", then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue, and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and, casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton, of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it, and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of, while she whispered a song along the keyboard, to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing[.]. Like Pollock, who created a procedure of entering the field of action of the painting, O'Hara creates the illusion that he has entered the process of writing to such an extent that the surface details in all their seeming discontinuity actually constitute the form of the poem itself. ], " He had always said poetry was his life. Still, he resists oversimplification and insists on discontinuities. "In Memory of My Feelings" (1956) can be thought of as a transitional poem from "Second Avenue" to the "Odes." 777 Words4 Pages. . Images of movement, transportation, and the journey of life appear and reappear to establish a coherence in the collection of information about history and contemporary living in the poem. He must have felt the beauty and power of unconscious phenomena in surrealist poems, but what he does is to use this power and beauty to ennoble, complicate, and simplify waking actions." and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and movie stars. s a mindig magnyra vgy remete egyedl lesz vgl . Compared to him everyone else seemed a little self-conscious, abashed, or megalomaniacal." lecsapni s vltoztatni irnyt mint a mszkl legyek elfoglalt vgtagokon "The verbal elements," by the poet's own insistence, "are extended consciously to keep the surface of the poem high and dry, not wet, reflective and self-conscious." When Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters was published twenty years ago, O'Hara was a coterie figure, adored by his New York School friends and acolytes, especially by the painters whose work he exhibited and wrote about--but . The Ode to Joy (An die Freude) is an ode composed by the German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller in the summer of 1785 and published the following year in the magazine Thalia. A scene of desire and of loss. Take a look. Only the accustomed syntactic structures prevail--subjects, predicates, clauses--supporting the progression that becomes a tramp of alien, autonomous images over an otherwise familiar bridge. . This is followed by references to Lana Turner . He studied at Harvard University (B.A., 1950) and the University of Michigan (M.A., 1951 . Frank O'Hara. tntorog plasztikai szksgletben a kjnek mely sose O'Hara moves out of the modernist mode of dada, surrealism, and cubism and into the postmodern advantage: a variety of techniques, which actually incorporate the salient gains of modernism while losing nothing of the flexibility and possibility of openness, the "going on your nerve" of "Personism." It was 3 a.m. of a Saturday night on Fire Island, pitch black on the beach except for the headlights of a disabled taxi . 489 likes. Wikipedia, PDM. In his letter he identifies some of the components, including a derisive portrait of "a poetry critic and teacher," a description of painter Hartigan at work, and "a true description of not being able to continue this poem and meeting Kenneth Koch for a sandwich while waiting for the poem to start again." Taking into consideration the time when the poems were written, it is no wonder that the author chose to describe his experience of coming out as a homosexual to his readers. The poem is dedicated to Mayakovsky, one of O'Hara's great heroes (though an early draft is inscribed to de Kooning), and certainly the images throughout are as wide-ranging and as startling as Mayakovsky's, but they arrive more rapidly and with less continuity, jostling for attention, a bewildering mixture. It is as unlikely that he would have abandoned the world of art as it is unlikely he would have abandoned poetry, despite the slowdown in production during the last years (he wrote only three poems the last year and a half of his life). . We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 1,582 listeners. George F. Butterick, University of Connecticut Frank O'Hara: Poems essays are academic essays for citation. There are nine odes in the book, along with three prints by Michael Goldberg. over an insatiable sexual appetite. Between 1952 and 1958 he either attended or participated in discussions of the new poetry and the new painting at the Abstract-Expressionist meeting place in New York called The Club. through the heavens' grand plan. . A self-aware performance courting danger. INTRODUCTION, 1997. by MARJORIE PERLOFF. is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irn, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne. . I wrote 'Love Poems (Tentative Title)' on the first page, then arranged them so that the sequence would show the beginning of a new love, its middle period of floundering, the collapse of the affair with its attendant sadness and regret. UB Art Galleries Buffalo, New York Rights & Reproductions No more dying, We shall see the grave of love as a lovely sight and temporary Also discover the danceability, energy, liveness, instrumentalness, happiness and more musical analysis points on Musicstax. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. His special subject was the encounter of the active sensibility with the world about it through extravagant fantasy, a ready wit, and a detailed realism of feelings. A member of the New York School of Poets, O'Hara applied the techniques of Abstract . kinek nmagn gyz bne ill srja lesz vgre A body in a place at a certain time. thats sweating with post-exertion visibility and sweetness An excerpt from a new biography showcases John Ashberys early years. Definition of "ode' is a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for something, in this case for joy. John Bernard Myers, the publisher of Tibor de Nagy Editions, remembered: "I waited for these poems for three or four years; Frank could never get himself to type them up. and the feather cushion preens beneath a reclining monolith blood that we have mountains in our veins to stand off jackals / in the pillaging of our desires and allegiances. 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