Sara's Reviews > The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

If you haven't read O'Hara, do it. Fun, fun poetry. A contemporary of Kerouac and Ginsburg, but I really prefer him to either of those beatniks. He is irreverent, writes about all sorts of things from movie stars to life in Manhattan. I read him first back in college - when I was in San Francisco, I visited the famed City Lights bookstore and bought his collected poems there. Another poet I would rank as "accessible" - but don't let that fool you, accessible isn't necessarily simple... O'Hara is an original.