Biotherm

Biotherm"Biotherm" is the last long poem of Frank O'Hara, whose accidental death in 1966 at age forty deprived America of one of its most vital and innovative poets. The poet and critic Bill Berkson, to whom the poem is addressed, provided an essay and compiled a glossary to explicate the references in the poem and to recount the circumstances of its writing. The artist Jim Dine knew O'Hara and admired his work. Challenged by O'Hara's brilliant

“High-comic mayhem” is how Christopher Buckley describes the consequences when the novel’s protagonist

in contravention of the bibliographical convention of title/recto

The book contains sixteen color relief prints by Julian Lethbridge

who received a Ph

the singer of the airplane who never left the ground

Robert Alter

In 1965 he married Marie Devlin

" Arion Press presents in this special edition the first section of that book

caged on an oxcart

fifty colored prints inspired by the play

fertility here

and bridges fascinated the amateur architect from Virginia