Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

In that autumn, O'Hara moved into an apartment in city of New York with Joe LeSueur, his roommate and sometimes his lover for the next 11 years. At Michigan, he won a Hopwood award and received his Master of Arts in English literature 1951. He then attended graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Despite his love for music, O'Hara changed his major and graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a degree in English. Visual art and contemporary music, his first love, heavily influenced O'Hara, a fine piano player all his life he suddenly played swathes of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff when visiting new partners, often to their shock.Īt Harvard, O'Hara met John Ashbery and began publishing poems in the Harvard Advocate. He majored in music and composed some works despite his irregular attendance was and his disparate interests. With the funding, made available to veterans, he attended Harvard University and roomed with artist-writer Edward Gorey. O'Hara served in the south Pacific and Japan as a sonar man on the destroyer United States Ship Nicholas during World War II.

Parents reared O'Hara in Grafton, Massachusetts.

Collections of American poet Francis Russell O'Hara include Meditations in an Emergency (1957) and Lunch Poems (1964) playfulness, irony, sophistication, and a shared interest in the visual arts mark works of the New York School, an active group that included O'Hara during the 1950s and 1960s.

Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara