Frank O'Hara | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Frank O'Hara.

Frank O'Hara | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Frank O'Hara.
This section contains 5,321 words
(approx. 18 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Rudy Kikel

SOURCE: Kikel, Rudy. “The Gay Frank O'Hara.” In Frank O'Hara: To Be True to a City, edited by Jim Elledge, pp. 334-49. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

In the following essay, originally published in 1978, Kikel discusses O'Hara as a gay poet.

The stream seems to have spilled itself out, the stream that (after the freak Fire Island beach accident ending his life, in 1966, at the age of forty) delivered Frank O'Hara over to us—or us to him, those of us who had not been his already—the stream that has had at its editorial source the tireless efforts of poet and anthologist Donald Allen, from whose hands we have five hundred pages of Collected Poems (Knopf, 1971),1 selections from them (1974), and three books care of the Grey Fox Press in Bolinas, California: Standing Still and Walking in New York, 1975, a volume of his fugitive art criticism and...

(read more)

This section contains 5,321 words
(approx. 18 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Rudy Kikel
Copyrights
Gale
Critical Essay by Rudy Kikel from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.