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This selection first published in Great Britain in 2004 by Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ Poems by Frank O’Hara first published in Great Britain by Carcanet Press Ltd 1991, 2003 © Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara Poems by John Ashbery first published in Great Britain in 1977, 1981, 1984, 1992, 1997, 2002 by Carcanet Press Ltd © John Ashbery Poems by Kenneth Koch first published in Great Britain in 1991, 1997 by Carcanet Press Ltd © the Estate of Kenneth Koch Poems by James Schuyler first published in Great Britain in 1990 by Carcanet Press Ltd © the Estate of James Schuyler The rights of the individual poets to be recognised as the authors of their work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Mark Ford 2003 The right of Mark Ford to be recognised as the editor of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 All rights reserved A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1 85754 734 9 The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter
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CONTENTS Introduction Select Bibliography 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) Steps ix xviii 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 28 30 31 34 35 37 38 39 41 43 44 45 46

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This selection first published in Great Britain in 2004 by

Carcanet Press Limited

Alliance House

Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ

Poems by Frank O’Hara first published in Great Britain by Carcanet Press Ltd 1991, 2003

© Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara Poems by John Ashbery first published in Great Britain in 1977, 1981, 1984, 1992, 1997, 2002 by

Carcanet Press Ltd © John Ashbery

Poems by Kenneth Koch first published in Great Britain in 1991, 1997 by Carcanet Press Ltd

© the Estate of Kenneth Koch

Poems by James Schuyler first published in Great Britain in 1990 by Carcanet Press Ltd

© the Estate of James Schuyler

The rights of the individual poets to be recognised as the authors of their work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988

Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Mark Ford 2003

The right of Mark Ford to be recognised as the editor of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988

All rights reserved

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 1 85754 734 9

The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England

Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter

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