{"product_id":"frank-ohara-poet-among-painters-9780226660592","title":"Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters","description":"Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts--poems, journals, essays, and letters--as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts. Perloff traces the poet's development through his early years at Harvard and his interest in French Dadaism and Surrealism to his later poems that fuse literary influence with elements from Abstract Expressionist painting, atonal music, and contemporary film. This edition contains a new Introduction addressing O'Hara's homosexuality, his attitudes toward racism, and changes in poetic climate cover the past few decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A groundbreaking study. [This book] is a genuine work of criticism. . . . Through Marjorie Perloff's book we see an O'Hara perhaps only his closer associates saw before: a poet fully aware of the traditions and techniques of his craft who, in a life tragically foreshortened, produced an adventurous if somewhat erratic body of American verse.\"--David Lenson, \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Perloff is a reliable, well-informed, discreet, sensitive . . . guide. . . . She is impressive in the way she deals with O'Hara's relationship to painters and paintings, and she does give first-rate readings of four major poems.\"--Jonathan Cott, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerloff, Marjorie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Perloff\u003c\/b\u003e is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePoetics in a New Key \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnoriginal Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409988325650,"sku":"9780226660592","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_159fbb59-a070-4f3d-ae0b-7b89e485671c.jpg?v=1729297372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/frank-ohara-poet-among-painters-9780226660592","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}