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Αμερικανοί ποιητές #8
Φρανκ Ο'Χάρα: Ποιήματα
Ο όρος "Σχολή των Ποιητών της Νέας Υόρκης" εμφανίστηκε πρώτη φορά το 1961, σε ένα άρθρο του Τζων Μπέρναρντ Μάγιερς στο καλιφορνέζικο περιοδικό Nomad. Ο όρος υποδήλωνε την παρουσία τεσσάρων ποιητών, του Φρανκ Ο' Χάρα, του Τζον Άσμπερυ, του Κέννεθ Κοκ, και του Τζέημς Σουίλερ. Ο πιο αντιπροσωπευτικός ποιητής αυτής της σχολής ήταν ο Φρανκ Ο' Χάρα.
Ο Φρανκ Ο' Χάρα γεννήθηκε στις 27 Ιουνίου του 1926 στην Βαλτιμόρη των Η.Π.Α. Μεγάλωσε στο Γκράφτον της Μασαχουσέτης. Αφού υπηρέτησε στο ναυτικό, σπούδασε μουσική στο Χάρβαρντ και φιλολογία στο πανεπιστήμιο του Μίσιγκαν. Το 1951 μετακόμισε οριστικά στη Νέα Υόρκη όπου και εργάστηκε ως καλλιτεχνικός σύμβουλος στο Μουσείο Μοντέρνας Τέχνης. Γοητευμένος από τις καθημερινές της εικόνες, ο Ο' Χάρα λάτρεψε τη Νέα Υόρκη για τον σφυγμό και τις δυνατότητές της νιώθοντας όμως στο πετσί του το ασφυκτικό της περιβάλλον και την εμμονή για νεοπλουτισμό: "Δεν μπορώ να ευχαριστηθώ ούτε καν ένα φύλλο χλόης", έγραψε κάποια στιγμή στο ημερολόγιό του, "παρεκτός την ευκολία του μετρό, ή κάποιο κατάστημα δίσκων ή όποιο άλλο σημείο όπου ο κόσμος δεν απαξιώνει ολοκληρωτικά την ζωή". [...] (Από την εισαγωγή της έκδοσης)
Ο Φρανκ Ο' Χάρα γεννήθηκε στις 27 Ιουνίου του 1926 στην Βαλτιμόρη των Η.Π.Α. Μεγάλωσε στο Γκράφτον της Μασαχουσέτης. Αφού υπηρέτησε στο ναυτικό, σπούδασε μουσική στο Χάρβαρντ και φιλολογία στο πανεπιστήμιο του Μίσιγκαν. Το 1951 μετακόμισε οριστικά στη Νέα Υόρκη όπου και εργάστηκε ως καλλιτεχνικός σύμβουλος στο Μουσείο Μοντέρνας Τέχνης. Γοητευμένος από τις καθημερινές της εικόνες, ο Ο' Χάρα λάτρεψε τη Νέα Υόρκη για τον σφυγμό και τις δυνατότητές της νιώθοντας όμως στο πετσί του το ασφυκτικό της περιβάλλον και την εμμονή για νεοπλουτισμό: "Δεν μπορώ να ευχαριστηθώ ούτε καν ένα φύλλο χλόης", έγραψε κάποια στιγμή στο ημερολόγιό του, "παρεκτός την ευκολία του μετρό, ή κάποιο κατάστημα δίσκων ή όποιο άλλο σημείο όπου ο κόσμος δεν απαξιώνει ολοκληρωτικά την ζωή". [...] (Από την εισαγωγή της έκδοσης)
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Published October 1, 2014
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About the author
Frank O'Hara
122 books703 followersCollections 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.
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.
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