Frank O'Hara

“I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar”

“Seventeen Lithographs for Frank O'Hara: Plate XIV” (1988), Willem de Kooning

These meditations are named after a book by Frank O’Hara. Frank O’Hara has been one of my favorite poets, if not my favorite poet, since my late teens. When I was in high school, my father gave me his college copy, an original edition, of O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, which was one of …