The exploration of the secret smile : the language of art and of homosexuality in Frank O'Hara's poetry
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The exploration of the secret smile : the language of art and of homosexuality in Frank O'Hara's poetry
（American university studies, Series XXIV,
P. Lang, c1989
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Bibliography: p. [141]-154
Includes index
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Description
This study of the work of the New York poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) emphasizes a largely overlooked aspect of O'Hara's poetics: the aspect of the urban homosexual, or gay, experience. It also emphasizes his frequent fusion of the aesthetics of poetry with the aesthetics of the visual arts. Revealing the importance of the deliberately (given the societal mood of the '50s and '60s) sedimented homosexual meaning in O'Hara's poetry, as well as the importance of the art of the Abstract Expressionists, The Exploration of the Secret Smile offers a new outlook on the congruence of his poetic canon.
Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction - The Performance of the Visual - Earlier Diverse Secret Smiles : Convaty and Whitman - The Exploration of the Smile - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index of Titles.
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