Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'For Mike- Happy Birthday and I hope the Houses and Odes go on and on into 1262- Frank.' Near fine in the rare original slipcase. Number 25 of the rare first edition O'Hara's classic work of poetry, published in an edition of 75 hardbound copies. (Keane)***Please email us for better pricing.***. Reading him, we seem to live under his very skin, what poet and critic Trace Peterson, calls O Hara s way of inhabiting poems that makes everything possible. He captures life s excruciating immediacies so directly that they flow and flood into his reader, like an interpersonal nervous system.Like cells firing impulses across synapses, the poems seem unfiltered biorhythms, transmitting desires, daydreams, impulses, emotions, associations, and perceptions as they happen, granting intimate access to a multifarious Frank O Hara, that would be the envy of Walt Whitman, that other American avatar of conflicted multitudes. So this copy is truly rare. *** Frank O Hara invented a form of poetry about the instant communication of overwhelming experience. This edition typically appears either marred with stickers and bookstore markings or simply full-on trashed. Trivial hints of toning along the extremities, else Fine - appears virtually unread.

*** First trade edition of his first full-length collection of poems. O Hara is the poet patron saint for Modern tortured souls from Madison Avenue to Main Street.

Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara