![]() ![]() ![]() In 1952, his first volume of poetry, A City Winter, and Other Poems, attracted favorable attention his essays on painting and sculpture and his reviews for ArtNews were considered brilliant. O’Hara’s early work was considered both provocative and provoking. He was soon employed at the front desk of the Museum of Modern Art and continued to write seriously. ![]() That autumn, O’Hara moved into an apartment in New York. He then attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received his MA in 1951. Despite his love for music, O’Hara changed his major and left Harvard in 1950 with a degree in English. While at Harvard, O’Hara met John Ashbery and soon began publishing poems in the Harvard Advocate. He also wrote poetry at that time and read the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Boris Pasternak, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. O’Hara then served in the South Pacific and Japan as a sonarman on the destroyer USS Nicholas during World War II.įollowing the war, O’Hara studied at Harvard College, where he majored in music and worked on compositions and was deeply influenced by contemporary music, his first love, as well as visual art. He grew up in Massachusetts, and later studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to 1944. On March 27, 1926, Frank (Francis Russell) O’Hara was born in Maryland. ![]()
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