CONTENTS
Introduction
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Frank O’Hara
Autobiographia Literaria
Poem (At night Chinamen jump)
Poem (The eager note on my door said “Call me,)
Memorial Day 1950
A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead
Blocks
Homosexuality
Meditations in an Emergency
Music
Poem (There I could never be a boy,)
To the Harbormaster
At the Old Place
My Heart
To the Film Industry in Crisis
Radio
In Memory of My Feelings
A Step Away from Them
Why I Am Not a Painter
Poem Read at Joan Mitchell’s
Anxiety
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
To Gottfried Benn
The Day Lady Died
Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul
Joe’s Jacket
You Are Gorgeous and I’m Coming
Poem (Khrushchev is coming on the right day!)
Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun)
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