Walks Through the Urban Space in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara
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Poetry, Frank O’Hara, City, WalkingAbstract
This article aims to investigate how a significant part of the work by the American poet Frank O’Hara (1926 – 1966) is structured by means of the crossing between a poetic sensibility and the need for movement. A central figure of the New York School, a very active group of artists and thinkers in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, O’Hara imprinted his works with themes of walking and wandering. The present text will broach how O’Hara’s poems articulate the walks of the lyrical I with crucial questions which that compose the everyday life of the urban landscape, such as work, sexuality, and consumerism. Thus, this article intends to show that O’Hara’s production, in a creative and original way, belongs to a tradition which associates poetic work with walking, especially concerning notions of space and the building of an urban identity.
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