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The Home & History of the Prolific New York Poet
& why it made the Carpe City list
Well, thanks to O’Hara’s position at MoMA, he’s credited with being responsible for quite a few of the connections between artists and poets that came to be known as the New York School. Many also overlapped with O’Hara at Harvard University. The collection of artists – including painters, poets, musicians and more – drew inspiration from Surrealism, avant-garde works, and stream of consciousness. Want to see more? Check out the Upper East Side’s Anita Shapolsky Gallery, which specializes in New York School art.
Watch closely and you just might catch O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency resurface several times in Season 2 of Mad Men. You’ll spot the book being read by a character in a bar in both the first and last episodes (the latter of which is actually titled after the book), as well as in Episode 12, where Don Draper finds his copy of the book out in California.
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara on Mad Men
Here’s a short excerpt from Frank’s A Step Away from Them that should give you the gist.
It’s my lunch hour, so I go
for a walk among the hum-colored
cabs. First, down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on.
Anne Crays
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