The Exploration of the Secret Smile: The Language of Art and of Homosexuality in Frank O'Hara's Poetry

by Alice C. Parker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820409588
• ISBN13: 9780820409580
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 164 Pages