{"product_id":"lunch-poems","title":"Lunch Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssential poems by the late New York poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by the poet in collaboration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Donald Allen, who had published O'Hara's poems in his monumental \u003cem\u003eThe New American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e in 1960, it contains some of the poet's best known works including \"The Day Lady Died,\" \"Ave Maria,\" and \"Poem\" [Lana Turner has collapsed!]. These are the compelling and formally inventive poems--casually composed, for example, in his office at The Museum of Modern Art, in the street at lunchtime or on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading--that made O'Hara a dynamic leader of the \"New York School\" of poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eDwight Garner, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As collections go, none brings . . . quality to the fore more than the thirty-seven \u003cem\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1964 by City Lights.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Nicole Rudick, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What O'Hara is getting at is a sense of the evanescence, and the power, of great art, that inextricable contradiction -- that what makes it moving and transcendent is precisely our knowledge that it will pass away. This is the ethos at the center of \u003cem\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/em\u003e: not the informal or the conversational for their own sake but rather in the service of something more intentional, more connective, more engaged.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--David L. Ulin, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles TImes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The collection broadcasts snark, exuberance, lonely earnestness, and minute-by-minute autobiography to a wide, vague audience--much like today's Twitter and Facebook feeds.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Micah Mattix, \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sweet poems, funny, exhilarating, spontaneous, subversive, poignant, and sometimes--often--more deeply, even darkly moving. But above all sweet. Probably a greater proportion of O'Hara's poems can be read for sheer pleasure than the poems of any other 20th-century writer. This slim volume is his liveliest, most distilled and delectable single collection. Quintessential O'Hara, and such a bargain!\"--\u003cb\u003eLloyd Schwartz, Grolier Poetry Book Shop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661238272290,"sku":"9780872860353","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_0b580e67-48bd-4f57-83ee-587127fb9f79.jpg?v=1779452347","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/lunch-poems","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}