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Subject: O'HARA, FRANK (1926-1966)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PHONECALL FROM FRANK O'HARA, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was living in san francisco
Last Line: Dialing manhattan
Variant Title(s): A Phone Call From Frank O'hara
Subject(s): Death; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Dead, The


A TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Learning how to give in to hate, or how to take, in love
Last Line: Or who or what they shall become, whence written down
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


BURIED AT SPRINGS, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hornet in the room
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Any man -- god, if he had the money
Last Line: Because we are what we are and that hurts
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Gays &y Lesbians; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


ELOGIO DI FRANK O'HARA, by JOHN ALEX LATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that I am up here in the sky I can see
Last Line: As descent and know it and we and they and you are there
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


FOR FRANK O'HARA'S GHOST, by JIM ELLEDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's heaven alone in the almost
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


FRANK O'HARA, by MICHAEL LALLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I despised an effete new york elitist fag in lunch poems 64
Last Line: Does that mean%but we all continue to look for ourselves in others %anyway
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA'S PERSONAL POEM, by HETTIE JONES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over and over the mind returns
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Homage & Respect


MONOLOGUE: FRANK O'HARA, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Untie your muse %for an hour and stay with me
Last Line: The words are never really ours for keeps
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Poetry And Poets


NIGHT JUMP, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night chinamen jump
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


NOBODY OPERATES LIKE AN IBM MACHINE', by PATSY SOUTHGATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said: %I love your house because my poems are always on the coffee table
Last Line: How flawless you were
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


READING FRANK O'HARA IN A MEXICAN RAINSTORM, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The enormous bliss of american death
Last Line: And he scratches his hair
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


SUNRISE: ODE TO FRANK O'HARA, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gulls glide, in 1939, into the bonus of another country
Last Line: August and then december will close the century %o air of your dreams descending on my day off
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Learning how to give in to hate, or how to take, in love
Last Line: Or who or what they shall become, whence written down
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


THOUGHTS AT FRANK O'HARA'S CITY POET PARTY, 6/9/93, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hal fondren was there, and bobby fizdale, %john gruen and jane-wilson, that is
Last Line: I'm going to get a drink!'
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Parties


WHY I AM NOT FRANK O'HARA, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the street is one example. Across the street is one example of the diff-
Last Line: But it is that new thing in a new world, and that new thing is a pose
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)


WHY I AM NOT FRANK O'HARA, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the street is one example. Across the street is one example of the diff-
Last Line: Neither poem nor prose, but it is that new thing in a new world, and tha tnew %thing is a pose
Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966)