Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I'

While recent works of criticism on Frank O''Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O''Hara and the Poetics of Saying ''I'' argues that what is most significant in O''Hara''s work is not such much his "borrowing" from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self ...