Twoja pojedynczość

by Frank O'Hara

Manifest ( A Manifesto)
Autohiographia titeraria
Wiersz (Nagląca kartka na moich drzwiach prosiła ,,Odezwij się,) /Poem (The eager note on my door said ,,Call me,)
Les etiquettes jaunes
Przyjemna myśl z Whiteheada / A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead
Krytyk / The Critic
Wnętrze (z Jane) /Interior (With Jane)
Poezja /Poetry
Pocztówka od Johna Ashbery'ego / A Postcard from John Ashbery/
Wiersz (,,To tylko ja pukam do drzwi) /Poem (Jt's only me knocking on the door)
Pokój /Room
Aus einem April
Do Larry Riversa / To Larry Rivers
Muzyka /Music
Dla Grace, po prywatce / For Grace, After a Party
Moje serce / My Heart
Przemysłowi filmowemu w kryzysie /To the Film Industry in Crisis
Po obejrzeniu w Museum of Modern Art ptótna Larry Riversa Waszyngton przeprawia się, przez Delaware /On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modem Art
Radio
Sen w locie /Sleeping on the Wing
Chopiniana
Wiersz (Kawa instant z lekko skwaśniałą smietanką) / Poem (Instant coffee with slightly sour cream)
O krok od nich / A Step Away from Them
Dygresja na temat Numeru 1, 1948 /Digression on Number 1,1948
Dlaczego nie jestem malarzem /Why I Am Not a Painter
Wiersz odczytany u Joan Mitchell /Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's
Urodziny Johna Buttona I John Button Birthday
Prawdziwy zapis rozmowy ze Słońcem na Fire Island / A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
Ta ,,Nieskończona" /The ,,Unfmished"
Dzień w którym zmarła Lady Day /The Day Lady Died
Adieu Norman, bon jour Joan i Jean-Paul /Adieu to Norman. Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul
Wiersz (Nie wiem czy chwytam do czego zmierza D. H. Lawrence) /Poem (I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence is driving at)
Wiersz osobisty /Personal Poem
Wiersz (Chruszczow przyjeżdża własciwego dnia!) /Poem (Krushchev is coining on the right day!)
Wstawanie wcześniej niż kto inny (Słońce) /Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun)/
Les luths
Wiersz (Już nie ma żadnych fiołkow, nosorożców, czyneli) /Poem (Now the violets are all gone, the rhinoceroses, the cymbals)
Wiersz (Światio przejrzystośc poranna sałatka z avocado) /Poem (Light clarity avocado salad in the morning)
Avenue A
Pić z tobg Colę /Having a Coke with You
[Na wielkiej autostradzie] [On the vast highway
Esej o stylu /Essay on Style
Wiersz (Czy to nie byłoby zabawne) /Poem (Wouldn't it be funny)
Dupa Mary Desti /Mary Destt's Ass
Wcześnie w niedzielę /Early on Sunday
Odpowiedź Wozniesienskiemu i Jewtuszence /Answer to Voznesensky & Evtushenko
Fantazja /Fantasy
[Dlaczcgo muchy chodzą po podłodze] [Why are there flies on the floor]
Posł "O krok od nich" (Szkic do portretu wierszy Franka O'Hary)
Spis ilustracji
Podstawa wyboru

127 pages

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

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.

Parents reared O'Hara in Grafton, Massachusetts. O'Hara served in the south Pacific and Japan as a sonar man on the destroyer United States Ship Nicholas during World War II.

With the funding, made available to veterans, he attended Harvard University and roomed with artist-writer Edward Gorey. He majored in music and composed some works despite his irregular attendance was and his disparate interests. 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.

At Harvard, O'Hara met John Ashbery and began publishing poems in the Harvard Advocate. Despite his love for music, O'Hara changed his major and graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a degree in English.

He then attended graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At Michigan, he won a Hopwood award and received his Master of Arts in English literature 1951. 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. Known throughout his life for his extreme sociability, passion, and warmth, O'Hara had hundreds of friends and lovers throughout his life, many from the New York art and poetry worlds. Soon after he arrived in New York, the Museum of Modern Art employed him at the front desk, and he began to write seriously.

O'Hara, active in the art world, working as a reviewer for Art News, and in 1960 was made Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. He was also friends with artists like Willem de Kooning, Norman Bluhm, Larry Rivers, and Joan Mitchell. O'Hara died in an accident on Fire Island in which he was struck and seriously injured by a man speeding in a beach vehicle during the early morning hours of July 24, 1966. He died the next day of a ruptured liver at the age of 40 and was buried in the Green River Cemetery on Long Island.

Reviews

[Jacques · Rating 4 out of 5]

Malarstwo nowojorskich poetów bardzo dobrze oddaje klimat wierszy O'Hary.