The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
O'Hara, Frank and Donald Allen (Ed.). Vintage Books, 1974. Softbound. 'The sky has opened like a solarium,' O'Hara writes in 'Commercial Variations', one of many poems included in this elegant collection, 'and the artillery / of the pest has peddled into the feathery suffering / its recently published rhymes.' Features fantastic design by Betty Anderson, an icon of the field due to her lengthy career as art director at Knopf, and a cover collage by proto-Pop artist Larry Rivers, whose relationship with O'Hara in the 1950s and '60s resulted in numerous collaborations.
Tight, square, uncreased spine has a small nick at the head. Clean, unmarked interior. Light edge-wear and publisher's price to the front cover has been blacked out. 233 pp. Poetry.
