Early Writing

45 USD

Date

1977

Category

Poetry

Description

This volume collects Frank O'Hara's writing during the years he was at Harvard College: the earliest poem is dated back to Octboer 1946 and the latest August 1950.

Excerpt

How can you be right if you kill everyone who is wrong? I admire Walter Gieseking. I admire Richard Strauss. Does the artist do enough for humanity to obviate his fascism? Can you fight ideas without ideas? BUT Is there ever a good without evil? Can I detach myself from Stalingrad? Can I rationalize Franco? Could even the greatest symphony drown out the screams of Jews? Is not lack of formulation progress?